Contributors
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Olivia Burgess received a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is an assistant teaching professor in the English and Technical Communication Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between the body and utopian thinking in twentieth-century utopian and dystopian literature. She has taught dystopian-themed courses in both science fiction and film. In addition to utopian studies, her research interests include fitness and sport in literature and culture.
Alan Clardy is a professor in the Psychology Department at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he directs the graduate degree program in human resource development. His research interests are in various topics in that field, including organizational culture assessment, narratives as forms of knowledge and learning in organizational culture, organizational reputation, online learning and professional training, and organizational change. He has published in Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, Public Personnel Management, Human Resource Development International, and the Journal of Management Development. In addition, he has developed and taught a course in future studies and is working on an accompanying book. It is as part of this work in future studies that he also began studying utopias, which led to the article published herein.
Ralph Pordzik is a professor of English studies at Würzburg University, Germany. He has published widely in the areas of postcolonial literature, travel writing, and nineteenth-century British poetry and fiction. Publications include The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures (2001), Utopie und Dystopie in den neuen englischen Literaturen (ed., with Hans-Ulrich Seeber, 2002), Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses (ed., 2009), and Victorian Wastelands: Apocalyptic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2012). [End Page 295]
Marlana Portolano is an associate professor and the director of the Master of Arts in Humanities program at Towson University in Maryland. She teaches rhetoric from ancient to contemporary times as well as literature courses that overlap with the rhetorical tradition, and she is the author of The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science (State University of New York Press, 2009). She is currently working on a study of rhetorical issues in Deaf culture.
Kurt Rahmlow is a continuing lecturer in modern and contemporary art at the University of North Texas. He received an M.A. in English from Northeastern University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Iowa in 2008. His dissertation is titled "Anterior Decorators: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Avant-Garde Environments at Arles and Le Pouldu." In 2008, he received the Arthur O. Lewis Award from the Society for Utopian Studies. He is currently researching a monograph-length study of artists' communities and avant-garde decorative painting in fin-de-siècle Europe.
Carlo Salzani holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Verona (Italy) and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Monash University (Australia). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn (Germany) and adjunct research associate at Monash University. He lives now in Tübingen (Germany). His publications include Constellations of eading: Walter Benjamin in Figures of Actuality (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), Crisi e possibilità: Robert Musil e il tramonto dell'Occidente (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), and the collection Essays on Boredom and Modernity (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010), co-edited with Barbara Dalle Pezze; with Brendan Moran he is editing a volume called Philosophy and Kaf ka (2012).
Lyman Tower Sargent is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a visiting professor at universities in England and New Zealand; a fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of London, and Victoria University of Wellington; and a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). His latest book is Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction (2010). His article is part of a project exploring aspects of utopianism in New Zealand that includes New Zealand Intentional Communities: A Research Guide (1997), New Zealand Utopian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1997), Living in Utopia: Intentional [End Page 296] Communities in New Zealand (2004) with Lucy...
