Mikkel Astrup (b. 1973, Oslo, Norway) is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. His fields of research and teaching are literary theory, derivatives of psychoanalysis, and writing. Astrup is currently developing a hypothesis on contemporary writing in his doctorate on Samuel Beckett's prose. He is also a freelance writer, publishing with journals and anthologies on Samuel Beckett, Neo-liberalism, politics, and desire.