Keston Sutherland is a reader in Poetics at the University of Sussex in the UK. He is the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) at Barque Press. His other books include Neocosis (2005), Hot White Andy (2007) and Stress Position (2009) and, most recently, The Stats on Infinity (2010), all of which are collections of poems. Stupefaction is his first book of critical and literary theory.