Notes on Contributors
Alexander Anievas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914–1945 (University of Michigan Press, 2014), for which he was awarded the Sussex International Theory Prize, and co-author (with Kerem Nisancioglu) of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015).
Gail Day is author of Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (Columbia University Press) which was shortlisted for the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. She is Professor of Art History and Critical Theory in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.
James Christie was formerly a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He now teachesEnglish in secondary education in the UK. His research interests include critical theory and contemporary American fiction. He has published articles in Mediations: The Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal.
Kamran Matin is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, UK. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013) and the co-editor of Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Kerem Nisancioglu is a Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London. He is the co-author (with Alexander Anievas) of How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015).
Luke Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. His research is currently focused on the role of identity, geopolitics and political nationalism in generating social and economic transformation. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on the ‘new nationalism’ in Hong Kong.
Michael Niblett is Assistant Professor in Modern World Literature at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Caribbean Novel since 1945 (University Press of Mississippi, 2012) and co-editor of Perspectives on the ‘Other America’: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (Rodopi, 2009). His most recent book is the co-edited collection The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics (Liverpool University Press, 2016).
Neil Davidson lectures in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of several books, including the Deutscher-Prize winning Discovering the Scottish Revolution (Pluto, 2003) and, most recently, Nation-States: Consciousness and Competition (Haymarket Books, 2016). He is member of RS21 and a supporter of the Radical Independence Campaign.
Nesrin Degirmencioglu was formerly a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and currently teaches at the Middle East Technical University’s Northern Cyprus Campus. Her current research focuses on world literature debates and manifestations of neoliberalism in contemporary American and Turkish fiction.
Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He has written widely on postcolonial literatures, Frankfurt School Marxism, and the work of Edward Said. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature (Palgrave, 2011) and, with David Alderson, For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics (Pluto, 2017).
Steve Edwards is Professor of History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories (Penn State University Press, 2006) and Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (Afterall, 2012). He is an editor of the Oxford Art Journal and of the Historical Materialism book series.