Steven Connor Academic Director of the London Consortium
	"Castles in the Air: Transdisciplinarity, Space and Rem Koolhaas"

Steven Connor is Academic Director of the London Consortium, Professor of Modern Literature and Theory and Birkbeck College Orator. An advocate for interdisciplinary studies and alternative research methodologies, Steve has lectured widely (particularly to architecture audiences) and been a contributor to several radio programs. His research interests are diverse: sound, space, literary studies, skin, atmospheres and broadcasts. He has written extensively on Michel Serres, Dickens and Beckett. His books include Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford Press, 2000) and The Book of Skin (Reaktion Books, 2004). He has recently completed a book entitled Fly (Reaktion, 2006) on the history of the fly in poetry, painting, religion and science. His current research is on the air. His talks and essays include: "Haze: On Nebular Modernism. A paper given at Modernism and Beyond," "How to Get Out of Your Head: Toward a Philosophy of Mixed Bodies," "The Menagerie of the Senses," "A Dim Capacity For Wings: Angels, Flies and the Material Imagination," "Circumlocation: Waves, Wheels, Worlds," "'Transported Shiver of Bodies': Weighing the Victorian Ether," "Corridors: A 'love letter to an unloved place'" broadcast on BBC Radio 3, "On the Air" script of a feature broadcast at on BBC Radio 3, "Windbags and Skinsongs," "Building Breathing Space," "Incidents of the Breath: In Pneumatic and Electric Ventriloquisms," "The Vapours," "A Certain Slant of Light" sound-essay on twilight, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, "Modernism in Midair," "Ears Have Walls: On Hearing Art" talk given at Tate Modern in the series Challenging Ocularcentricity, "S m o g" a broadcast on Nightwaves fifty years after the London's Great Smog of 1952, "Sleights of Voice: Ventriloquism, Magic and the Harry Price Collection," "Seeing Sound: The Displaying of Marsyas," "Oxygen Debt: Little Dorrit's Pneumatics," "Rough Magic" series of radio essays exploring the mysteries of everyday objects (bags, wires, screens, sweets), broadcast on BBC Radio 4, "Modernism and the Writing Hand," "What If There Were No Such Thing As The Aesthetic?," "Voice, Technology and the Victorian Ear," and "Noise," a series on BBC Radio 3. [source credit: stevenconnor.com] Music in this podcast, "Castles In The Air" by The French Impressionists is used by kind permission of LTM Records.