Finn Fordham is Professor of 20th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied the English Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving to Birkbeck College, London to work with Steven Connor on a Ph.D. funded by the British Academy.  The publication of his thesis, in part about James Joyce’s daughter, Lucia, was blocked by the James Joyce Estate.  After a year teaching at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he became a research fellow at University College Northampton, and then secured a Special Research Fellowship with the Leverhulme Foundation to carry out research into Textual Genetics and Modernism.  He wrote two books around this theme: Lots of Fun at ‘Finnegans Wake’: Unravelling Universals (2007) and I do I undo I redo: the Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves (2010), both published with Oxford University Press.  He has edited several collections of essays, including (with Rita Sakr) James Joyce and the 19th Century French Novel, and written numerous articles on a range of subjects.  These include Geoffrey Hill and Derek Walcott, Nabokov and Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Danielewski, and Foster Wallace, music, theological modernism, and early television.  In 2012, he edited Finnegans Wake for Oxford World Classics.  He is currently working on an archivally informed study of culture on a single momentous day – September 3rd 1939, when Britain and France declared war on Germany and culture was, in effect, suspended.