Contributors
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Lorna Davidson (M.A. Hons. Cert. Ed.) is the director of the New Lanark Trust. She is a graduate of St. Andrews University. Since 1983 she has been involved in the restoration and development of the historic New Lanark Mill community, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. She was recently appointed as the director of the New Lanark Trust and is the secretary of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe).
Robert Hunter is a former props master in film and television production, with an earlier background in the theater as an actor and technician. He lives in Bristol, where he taught occasionally in media and cultural studies. He is an amateur musician, playing saxophones and clarinet in addition to guitar and singing. An independent scholar with no institutional affiliation, his main research interests are political utopianism and cultural theory, with a developing focus on music.
Ruth Levitas is a professor of sociology at the University of Bristol, co-founder and former chair of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe), and vice-chair of the William Morris Society. She researches and writes on utopianism, politics, and social policy, as well as poverty and social exclusion. Her publications include The Concept of Utopia (originally 1990), which was reissued in 2010 by Peter Lang. She is an amateur musician, playing flute and alto sax. She currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and is preparing a book called Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
John Lynch has taught at Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Birmingham in the field of visual and cultural theory. His research interests include theories of visual culture, alternative media and film production, and contemporary theories of artistic and cultural resistance. His most recent book was published by Cork University Press and is titled After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice. [End Page 391]
Tom Moylan is an emeritus professor in the School of Languages, Literature, Culture, and Communication and executive director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination and Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia and co-editor of Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch (with Jamie Owen Daniel), Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination and Utopia-Method-Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (both with Raffaella Baccolini), and Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice (with Michael J. Griffin).
Mary Louise O'Donnell began her harp studies with the late Sr. Eugene McCabe at Mount Sackville School, Dublin, and later studied with Fiona Norwood and Sebastien Lipman and attended master classes with the renowned harpist and teacher Edward Witsenberg. In 1992, she was awarded an Entrance Exhibition to Trinity College Dublin and graduated with an honours degree in music in 1996. She holds a master's in musicology from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. from the University of Limerick. She has performed with many ensembles and orchestras throughout the world and has toured extensively with different groups throughout Europe, North America, Africa, and most recently Asia.
Luis Gómez Romero has recently finished his Ph.D. in jurisprudence with a dissertation titled "Fantasy, Dystopia, and Justice: Harry Potter's Saga as an Instrument for Teaching Human Rights" (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2009). This covers his main research interests: human rights, political theory, utopianism, law and literature, and critical legal theory. Among his recent publications is El Tiempo de los Débiles: Garantismo y Literatura (Porrúa, Mexico: Escuela Libre de Derecho/Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2008).
Peter Webb is a writer, lecturer, and musician whose interests include music, subcultures, globalization, new media technology, politics, and cultural and social theory. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. He has published work on the Internet, music cultures, and cultural theory and Exploring the Networked Worlds of Popular Music: Milieu Cultures (Routledge, 2007). In addition, he worked at an independent record label from 1996 to 2002 as an artist and tour manager and is a published musician, releasing music under the names Statik and Statik Sound...
