Steven Shaviro

Steven Shaviro (/ʃəˈvɪroʊ/) is an American academic, philosopher, and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a B.A. in English in 1975, M.A. in English in 1978, and a Ph.D. in English in 1981, all from Yale University.^[1] From 1984 to 2004, he was a professor of English at the University of Washington,^[2] and since 2004 teaches film, culture and English at Wayne State University, where he is the DeRoy Professor of English.