Professor of English at Cambridge University since 2012, Steven Connor takes over as the Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in October 2018. His research interests include magical thinking; the history of medicine; the cultural life of objects and the material imagination; the relations between culture and science; the philosophy of animals; the body, sense and sexuality; literature, numbers and economics; literature and technology; collective feeling and fantasy; and the history of sound, voice and auditory media. His most recent book is Dream Machines (2017), about the history of imaginary machines and mechanisms, which is part of the Technographies series he coedits for Open Humanities Press. And The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (Reaktion) is forthcoming in 2019.