Chris Danta is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. 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 (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 2018).