From 1966 to 1972 attended Christ's Hospital School - expelled.
1973 Read English at Wadham College, Oxford - Terry Eagleton, tutor. Completed BA, with a first-class degree.
1980 DPhil thesis on Prose Fantasy and Mythography.
1980 appointed Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College.
1992 helped develop collaborative interdisciplinary graduate programme with Birkbeck College, the Tate Gallery, the British Film Institute and the Architectural Association.
2002 succeeded Paul Hirst as the Academic Director of the London Consortium.
'The Shakes: Conditions of Tremor', The Senses and Society, 3 (2008): 205-20.
‘On Such and Such a DayIn Such a World': Beckett’s Radical Finitude. In Borderless Beckett/Beckett sans frontières, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 19 (2008): 35-50.
‘Le Voci Dentro e Fuori di Noi’, (interview with Enzo Mansueto), Rodeo, 43 (2008): 66.
'The Right Stuff', Modern Painters (March 2009): 58-63.
'Strings in the Earth and Air', New Formations (Special Issue on Postmodernism, Music and Cultural Theory, ed. David Bennett ), 66 (2009), 58-67.