Derek Attridge teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature in the University of York, England. His books include Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres (Cambridge, 1974); Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce (Cornell and Routledge, 1988; reissued 2004); Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1995); _ J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading_ (Chicago, 2004); The Singularity of Literature (Routledge, 2004); and How to Read Joyce (Granta, 2007). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.