Steven Connor is Professor of English at King’s College, London. He is Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus in the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London and Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

His most recent books are A History of Asking (London: Open Humanities Press, 2023), Dreamwork: Why All Work is Imaginary (London: Reaktion/Chicago University Press, 2023), Styles of Seriousness (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023), Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography (London: Reaktion, 2025) and Exorbitance: A Grammar of Overdoing (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2026). He is coeditor of the Technographies series from Open Humanities Press.

He is currently completing Always Assuming: For an Understanding of Implicit Understanding, and, with Patrick ffrench, developing Digital Lifetimes 1970-2030, a collective auto-ethnography of the changing experience of time in digital culture. He is also at work on The University of the Absurd, an institutional-historical autobiography.