Balfour, Ian
Ian Balfour is Professor of English at York University. He is the
author of several books including The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy and is
editor of collections on Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, human rights, and
the “foreignness of film.” He has taught recently at Cornell as the M. H.
Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor of English. In fall 2013 he was the
Kress Foundation Fellow in the Literature of Art at the Clarke Art Institute
and in winter 2014 the Autrey Visiting Professor at Rice University. For
2014-15 he will be a member of the Rice Seminar devoted to 18th and 19th
century British culture. He’s finishing an interminable book on the
sublime.