Steven Connor

Steven Kevin Connor, FBA (born 11 February 1955) is a British scholar of literature, language and culture. He was formerly the Academic Director of the London Consortium, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, University of London, Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of English at King's College, London.

Connor was born on 11 February 1955 in Chichester, in Sussex, England.^[1] From 1966 to 1973, he was educated at Christ's Hospital and Bognor Regis School. In 1973, he matriculated into Wadham College, Oxford to study English; his tutor was Terry Eagleton.^[2][3] He graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976.^[1] He remained at Oxford to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in English.^[3] He completed his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis titled "Prose fantasy and myth-criticism 1880–1900".^[4] Though never published in book form, his thesis anticipates all of his succeeding work as a phantasmatician, one taken up with the operations of fantasy, defined as things we want to be true, even if they are.

In 1979 or 1980, Connor joined Birkbeck College, University of London, as a lecturer in English.^[1][3][5] He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1990, made Reader in Modern English Literature in 1991, and appointed Professor of Modern Literature and Theory in 1994.^[5] He held two senior positions at the college: he was Pro-Vice-Master for International and Research Students between 1998 and 2001; and College Orator between 2001 and 2012.^[6] From 2002 to 2012, he additionally served as Academic Director of the London Consortium, a graduate school of the University of London that specialised in multidisciplinary programs.^[2]

في أكتوبر 2012، عُيّن كونور أستاذاً للغة الإنجليزية في كلية اللغة الإنجليزية بجامعة كامبريدج . ^{[ 3 ] [ 5 ]} كما انتُخب زميلاً في كلية بيترهاوس بجامعة كامبريدج . ^{[ 1 ] [ 7 ]}

من عام 2023 إلى عام 2026 شغل منصب مدير الأبحاث في معهد المستقبل الرقمي، كلية كينجز، لندن .

في عام ١٩٨٤، تزوج كونور من ليندسي ريتشاردسون، وأنجبا ابنة واحدة. انفصلا عام ١٩٨٨. وفي عام ٢٠٠٥، تزوج كونور من ليندا نيد، وأنجبا ولدين. ^{[ ١ ]} نيد مؤرخة فنية وأكاديمية. ^{[ ٨ ]}

في عام 2012، انتُخب كونور زميلاً فخرياً في كلية بيركبيك، جامعة لندن . ^{[ 9 ]} وفي يوليو 2016، انتُخب زميلاً في الأكاديمية البريطانية (FBA)، وهي الأكاديمية الوطنية في المملكة المتحدة للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية. ^{[ 10 ]}

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