Contributors
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Alireza Omid Bakhsh is an assistant professor at the University of Tehran, Iran, where he teaches both Spanish and English languages and literature. His research areas are literary theory, science fiction, and comparative utopian studies focusing on English, Spanish, Persian, and Islamic utopias. “The Roots of Dystopia in Iran,” published in Trans/Forming Utopia: “The Small Thin Story” (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), is one of a number of essays he has published. He is currently writing a book titled The Islamic and Iranian Utopian Traditions.
Samuel Gerald Collins is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Towson University. He researches information society and information and communication technologies in the United States and South Korea and in particular the formation of multiagent socialities composed of human and nonhuman agents. He has published on multiagent systems in regard to cybernetics, social networks, and actor network theory. Collins is the author of two books (Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society [2009] and All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future [2008]) and has co-edited a third, Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies (2009). He has been at Towson University since 1999 and teaches on social theory, qualitative methods, and science and technology studies.
Federico Cugurullo is a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. His research investigates the ideologies underpinning the development of cities. More specifically, his work examines how ideas and images of ideal societies based on the ideology of sustainability crystallize into the built environment through the production of eco-cities. With his recent publications, Cugurullo aims to provide a critique of the planning and development paradigms shaping current processes of urbanization.
Jacqueline Dutton is the convener of the French studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely on utopian [End Page 162] studies with specializations in French and Francophone utopias, as well as comparative utopias. Publications include a monograph in French on Nobel Laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio’s utopian vision (L’Harmattan, 2003) and a chapter on non-western utopian traditions in the Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (Cambridge, 2010). Other research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature and travel writing. She is the inaugural convener of the Travel Research Network (www.travelresearchnetwork.com) and creative director of the Australian Festival of Travel Writing (www.aftw.com.au).
Antoine Hatzenberger holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne and teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Tunis (Tunisia). He has published La Liberté (Paris: GF-Flammarion, 1999) and Rousseau et l’utopie: de l’état insulaire aux cosmotopies (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012), edited Utopies des Lumières (Lyons: ENS Editions, 2010), and co-edited L’Afrique indéfinie (Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia, 2012).
Marco Lauri received a Ph.D. in Islamic studies from La Sapienza University in Rome, with a thesis outlining the history and specific character of the Islamic utopian tradition, focusing on the philosophy and political theory of the Islamic Middle Ages. His main scholarly interest is the history of ideas, as expressed by science fiction and utopian writing, both in the West and in the Islamic world. He has edited, with Roberta Amato, the Storia Filosofica dei Secoli Futuri by the Italian writer Ippolito Nievo (Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2012), an Italian speculative short story of the nineteenth century. His articles have been published in Italian journals: “Sarmazia, Khazaria, Russia. Centralità e marginalità nello spazio ponto-caspico” (Eurasiatica 84), “L’indentità nazionale indonesiana nei manifesti letterari (1925–1963)” (Phoenix. Online Journal of Oriental Studies 2), and “Secoli superbi e sciocchi. Cartoline d’Oriente nel fantastico popolare” (Rivista degli Studi Orientali 84).
Guangyi Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese literature and culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on modern Chinese literature, Chinese intellectual history, Chinese science fiction, and Chinese/Asian utopianism. He is currently writing his dissertation, “Peace Under Heaven: The (Re)Making of an Ideal World Order in Chinese Utopianism (1902–1911).” E-mail: frankfirepku@gmail.com. [End Page 163]
Cyrus Masroori is an associate professor of political science...
