Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Penn State University. Her many publications include New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism (Manchester University Press, 1997), Ethics and Representation (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), Understanding Deleuze (Allen and Unwin, 2002), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska University Press, 2003), Irony (Routledge, 2003), Gender (Palgrave, 2004), Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2006), Milton, Evil and Literary History (Continuum, 2008) and Deleuze and the Meaning of Life (Continuum, 2010).