Timothy Morton studied English literature at Oxford and then did postdoctoral work at Princeton. He is the author of over eighty essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He gives lectures around the world on literature, ecology, philosophy, and culture. Morton is currently writing Dark Ecology and Buddhaphobia. He is the author of ‘Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality’, ‘Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World’, ‘The Ecological Thought’ and ‘Ecology without Nature’. He has published seven other books, all of which are about issues and authors in the Romantic period (Frankenstein, Percy Shelley, Romantic-period food and eating, radicalism). Currently he is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University.