Irving Goh

Irving Goh is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2014). He is also co-editor with Verena Andermatt Conley (Harvard) of Nancy Now (Polity Press, 2014). He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, having written his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dominick LaCapra, Jonathan Culler, Timothy Murray, and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. His main research interest is in contemporary continental thought and its intersections with literature and politics, and he has published numerous articles in this area in journals such as Diacritics, MLN, Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Cultural Critique, Theory & Event, and SubStance. In 2012-2013, he oversaw the publication of The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap (National University of Singapore Press, 2013), an important document gathering all the published poems of Singapore's major poet. For more on his current and future projects, please visit www.irving-goh.com.