Thomas Docherty studied in Glasgow, Paris and Oxford. He graduated with his MA in English and French Language and Literature from Glasgow, where he also studied Mathematics and Philosophy. He then took a DPhil in Oxford.  He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance to the present day.  He specialises in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures.

Selected publications

Reading (Absent) Character (Oxford UP, 1983)

John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986)

On Modern Authority (Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1987)

Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993)

After Theory (Routledge, 1990; revised and expanded 2nd edn, Edinburgh UP, 1996)

Alterities (Oxford UP, 1996)

Criticism and Modernity (Oxford 1999)

Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006)

The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008)