Martin Hägglund is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University. He is also a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he was a Junior Fellow (2009-2012). In 2014 he was awarded The Schück Prize by the Swedish Academy and in 2018 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His new book, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, has just been released by Pantheon Books.
Hägglund is also the author of Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (2012), Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (2008), and Kronofobi: Essäer om tid och ändlighet (Östlings Bokförlag 2002).
His work has been the subject of a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review, Living On: Of Martin Hägglund.