Dan Hassler-Forest works as assistant professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University. He has published books and articles on superhero movies, comics, transmedia storytelling, adaptation studies, critical theory, and zombies.

Dan Hassler-Forest

Ellie Mae O’Hagan is an editor at openDemocracy and a freelance journalist writing mainly for the Guardian. She has also written for The New York Times, the Independent, the Times, Vice, Foreign Policy, and others. She tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/MissEllieMae">@MissEllieMae</a>.

Ellie Mae O’Hagan

Mark Bould teaches at the University of the West of England and co-edits Science Fiction Film and Television. His most recent books are Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012), Solaris (2014), and SF Now (2014). He blogs at <a href="www.markbould.com">www.markbould.com</a> rather than getting on with the stuff he should be doing.

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Mark Bould

Roger Luckhurst is professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the editor, most recently, of Science Fiction: A Literary History (2017) and The Cambridge Companion to Dracula (2017) and co-author, with journalist Andy Beckett, of The Disruption (Texte und Tone, 2017). His cultural history of the corridor appears from Reaktion Press in 2019.

Roger Luckhurst

Carl Freedman was born in 1951. He is the William A. Read Professor of English Literature at Louisiana State University and the author of many books, articles, and reviews that cover a wide range of topics in modern thought and culture, most notably Marxist critical theory, science fiction, film, and United States electoral politics. His best-known book is Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000); his most recent is Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville (2015). He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Carl Freedman

Jeremy Gilbert is professor of Cultural and Political Theory. He was written widely on politics, music, and contemporary culture. He has an active blog here: http://www.jeremygilbert.org/#blog

Jeremy Gilbert

In Memoriam: Mark Fisher

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Jeremy Gilbert is professor of Cultural and Political Theory. He was written widely on politics, music, and contemporary culture. He has an active blog here: http://www.jeremygilbert.org/#blog