Derrida Reads Shakespeare

Chiara Alfano is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kingston University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. She has published four peer-reviewed articles, three of them on Derrida, and is the co-editor of Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2015). She is also reviews editor at The Oxford Literary Review.

• What is Shakespeare’s Genius? Deconstructing (with) Shakespeare Flèches and the Wounds of Reading Porpentine Giving the Greatest Chance to ChanceThe Politics of Re-Reading Conclusion, or Génie qui es tu

From the present tense of its title onwards, Derrida Reads Shakespeare offers a vital, fresh, richly interesting study of its topic, as well as a valuable reflection on the relations – very old, very new – between literature and philosophy.