John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at Loughborough University. He is author of Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida (Sussex Academic), Victorians in Theory (MUP) and The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors (Macmillan); editor of Writing the Bodies of Christ (Ashgate), Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean (Penguin), Dickens Refigured (MUP); and co-editor of life.after, theory (Continuum). Professor Schad is currently writing an experimental book called Derrida via Oxford: Barely a Life.