Samuel Weber (b.1940) is an American critical theorist and one of the leading thinkers across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy, an psychoanalysis. He was the Paul de Man chair at the EGS and is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities and the co-director of the Paris Program in Critical Theory at Northwestern University. His most recent publications include Singularity: Politics and Poetics (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and Preexisting Conditions: Recounting the Plague (Zone Books, 2022). He is currently working on a book-length study of the Uncanny in Freud, Heidegger and Derrida.