Dillon, Brian, 1969- (Personal Name)

In the dark room, 2005: t.p. (Brian Dillon) jkt flap (b. 1969 in Dublin)

University of Kent, press release, via WWW, June 4, 2009: May 15, 2008 (Brian Dillon, currently the UK editor of the New York based cultural magazine Cabinet and a contributing editor at Art Review, is to return to the University of Kent's School of English; author of In the Dark Room; Ph.D. 1999)

E-mail from author, June 4, 2009: (Ph.D. thesis, The temporality of rhetoric; author/contributor/editor of: Culture and melancholy, The end of the line, Mie Olise Kjaergaard and Bernd Behr, Psycho buildings, Zugzwang (almost complete); not author of Beckett's blurry signature or Austin Clark's body)

Royal College of Art website, 25 June 2014: staff (Dr. Brian Dillon; tutor in critical writing in art & design; a writer and critic, and UK editor of Cabinet magazine; he contributes regularly to art magazines, newspapers and journals in the UK, USA and Ireland, as well as writing books in a range of subject matter; books incl. a memoir "In the dark room", "Tormented hope: nine hypochondriac lives", a novella "Sanctuary", and an edited anthology "Ruins", whilst another "Blown all to nothing" will be published by Penguin in 2013 and a selection of his essays on art and literature "Culture and curiosity" will be published by Sternberg Press in 2012)

Ruin lust, 20914: t.p. (Brian Dillon) back cover (novelist, critic, and curator; UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and reader in critical writing at the Royal College of Art)