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, Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London and 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) and Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography (London: Reaktion, 2025). He is coeditor of the Technographies series from Open Humanities Press.

Exorbitance: A Grammar of Overdoing will appear from Stanford University Press in July 2026. He is currently completing Always Assuming: For an Understanding of Implicit Understanding, and, with Patrick ffrench, developing Digital Lifetimes 1970-2030, a collective commission of enquiry into the lifetimes of, and in, technology. The University of the Absurd, an institutional-historical autobiography, is in the works.