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Chris Danta

Professor Chris Danta

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2024
  • Section(s): English

Biography

Chris Danta is Professor of literature in the School of Cybernetics at the ANU and was recently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2021-24). His research operates at the intersection of literary theory, philosophy, science and theology. He is the author of Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot (2011) and Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor (2018). He is currently working on a book titled Future Fables: Literature, Evolution and Artificial Intelligence. His articles have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as New Literary History, SubStance, Angelaki, Textual Practice, Literature and Theology, Contemporary Literature and Modernism/modernity.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.