About the Editors
General Editor
Michael Ryan holds a joint appointment in English and Film & Media Arts at Temple University, USA. He is co-editor (with Amitava Kumar) of Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books. He was the founder of the Cultural Studies Association in the U.S. and served as the Director of the association for five years. His books include Marxism and Deconstruction (1982), Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary American Film (with Douglas Kellner, 1986), and Politics and Culture (1989). He is the editor of Literary Theory: An Anthology (with Julie Rivkin, 2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell 2004), and Cultural Studies: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966
Gregory Castle is Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA. His publications include Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Postcolonial Discourses: A Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006) and The Blackwell Guide to Literary Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).
Literary Theory from 1966 to the Present
Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at the University of London (Royal Holloway), UK, where he specialises in twentieth and twenty first-century literature, literary theory, Holocaust studies and contemporary European philosophy. He is the series editor for Routledge Critical Thinkers.
Cultural Theory
M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of English and Director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Arkansas, USA. He is the author of more than 30 books on literature, popular culture, and cultural theory, including The Science Fiction Handbook (with Anne-Marie Thomas, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).