Marian Hobson

Her research interests concentrate on the 18th century (Diderot) and 20th century (Derrida); on materialism and postmodernism, respectively. She is the author of Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines (Routledge 1998), and has written numerous articles on Derrida including: ‘History Traces’, in Post-Structuralism and the Question of History, eds. Attridge and Bennington (Cambridge 1986), ‘Characteristic Violence; or, The physiognomy of style’, in Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, eds. de Vries & Weber (Standford University Press, 1997), ‘Mimesis, presentation, representation’, in Derrida and the Humanities, ed. Tom Cohen (Cambridge University Press, 2001).