Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. He is co-director of the London Graduate School. His recent books include Counter-Institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber, co-edited with Gary Hall (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction, co-edited with Allison Weiner (London and New York: Continuum, 2007), Derrida: Writing Events (London and New York: Continuum, 2008), The Derrida Dictionary (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013). His latest book, for Edinburgh University Press, is Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis (2014). 

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