Chris Danta is Senior Lecturer in English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of "Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot" (2011) and the coeditor of "Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction" (2011). He has also published essays in "New Literary History", "Angelaki", "Textual Practice", "Modernism/modernity", "SubStance "and "Literature & Theology".