Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York and was the Spring 2011 Segal Professor of Irish Studies in the Department of English at Northwestern. He is renowned Joyce scholar (Peculiar Language [Cornell 1988, reissued 2004], Joyce Effects [Cambridge 2000], How to Read Joyce [Granta 2007], and four additional edited or co-edited volumes on Joyce), who has an equally impressive scholarly profile in the analysis of poetic form, especially rhythmic analysis (Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres [Cambridge,1974], The Rhythms of English Poetry [Longman, 1982], Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction [Cambridge 1995], and Meter and Meaning [with Thomas Carper, Routledge 2003]). Professor Attridge has also published a number of books and articles on literary theory, many of them reflecting his long association with Jacques Derrida, including The Singularity of Literature (Routledge 2004) and Reading and Responsibility (Edinburgh 2010).