Steven Connor is Director of Research of the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College, London. He is Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus in the University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

His most recent books are The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (London: Reaktion/Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019), Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019), A History of Asking (London: Open Humanities Press, 2023), Dreamwork: Why All Work is Imaginary (London: Reaktion/Chicago University Press, 2023) and Styles of Seriousness (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023).

He is currently completing a critical life of Gaston Bachelard, and writing a book about exaggeration.