Marcel Bois
is a historian from Hamburg, Germany. His research interests include the history of communism, labour history and biographies. He has published widely on the KPD in the Weimar Republic. His books, in German, include Kommunisten gegen Hitler und Stalin. Die linke Opposition der KPD in der Weimarer Republik. Eine Gesamtdarstellung (Klartext 2014); Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architektur. Politik. Geschlecht. Neue Perspektiven auf Leben und Werk (co-edited with Bernadette Reinhold; Birkhäuser 2019) and Volksschullehrer zwischen Anpassung und Opposition. Die „Gleichschaltung“ der Gesellschaft der Freunde des vaterländischen Schul- und Erziehungswesens in Hamburg (1933–1937) (Beltz-Juventa 2020). [marcel.bois@gmx.de]
Paul Ingram
recently completed a PhD in English at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research focuses on the figure of the philistine in Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory and Dadaist anti-art. He has written articles on topics including iconoclasm, the avant-garde and music. Flat Earth, a collection of poetry, was published by Contraband Books in 2018. [paulstepheningram@gmail.com]
Lars T. Lih
is an independent scholar who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the author of Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921 (1990), Lenin Rediscovered: What Is To Be Done? in Context (2006), and Lenin (a biography in the Reaktion Critical Lives series, 2011). What was Bolshevism?, forthcoming in the Historical Materialism Book Series, gives a panoramic view of how Bolshevik leaders answered the title question. He is now working on a study on the causes, course and consequences of the Russian Revolution. [larslih@yahoo.ca]
James Muldoon
is a lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter. He is author of Building Power to Change the World: The Political Thought of the German Council Movements (forthcoming) and editor of The German Revolution and Political Theory and Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. [j.muldoon@exeter.ac.uk]
Darren Roso
is a Melbourne-based independent researcher, currently working on the theoretical and political thought of Karl Korsch. He is the author of Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager, forthcoming in Brill’s Historical Materialism book series. He is currently coordinating the translations into English of Bensaïd’s writings and has a chapter on his theoretical work in the Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (2021). [darrenroso@gmail.com]
Panagiotis Sotiris
is a journalist and independent researcher working in Athens. He has taught social and political philosophy at the University of Crete, Panteion University, the University of the Aegean, the University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. A member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism, he has edited the collective volume Crisis, Movement, Strategy: The Greek Experience (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2018) and is author of A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2020). [panagiotis.sotiris@gmail.com]
Darko R. Suvin
scholar, critic and poet, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, studied at the universities of Zagreb, Bristol, the Sorbonne, and Yale, is Professor Emeritus of McGill University and Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. Was co-editor of Science-Fiction Studies (1973–81), editor, Literary Research/Recherche littéraire, ICLA review organ (1986–95); visiting professor at 10 universities in N. America, Europe, and Japan, and Award Fellow of Killam Foundation and Humboldt Foundation. Has published 27 book titles, edited 14 volumes, and written many articles on Literature and Dramaturgy, Culture, Utopian and Science Fiction, and Political Epistemology; also three volumes of poetry. In the last years writing mainly on SFR Yugoslavia, communism, poetry, and utopianism, and as of 2020 on the anti-utopia of ‘coronisation’. Latest book titles: Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels, Political Animal 2020; Brecht’s Communist Manifesto Today, [Delhi] Aakar 2020; forthcoming: Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in SF and Utopianism, 2 Vols., P. Lang. Homepage: <www.darkosuvin.com>; papers: <https://independent.academia.edu/DarkoSuvin/Papers>. [dsuvin@gmail.com]
