Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film and Media, the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on contemporary writing, theory, and film is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004, 2007) and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2002). He has co-edited The Geographies of Modernism (2005), and was Co-Director of the AHRC funded Modernist Magazine Project (2005-2010). Most recently he is co-editor of Vols. 1 and 2 of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009) and of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). He was a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex (2008-10) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham (2009). He served between 2005 -2011 as Chair of the Raymond Williams Society. Sascha Bru (MDRN) is Professor of literary theory at the University of Leuven. He has written extensively on the poetics and politics of the modernist avant-gardes, including Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (2009) and the co-edited volumes, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde - 1906-1940 (2006), Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent (2009) and Regarding the Popular: High and Low Culture in Modernism and the Avant-Garde (2011). He is a founder of EAM (The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies) Andrew Thacker is currently Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. He co-founded the Northern Modernism seminar and is an editor of the journal Literature & History. He has published widely upon modernism, including Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003), The Imagist Poets (2011), and the co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). He is currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies. Christian Weikop is Chancellor's Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and has held research fellowships in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany. He has written widely on twentieth-century German art for international art journals and museum publications, as well as for the projects ARTIST ROOMS (Tate/National Galleries of Scotland) and the Image of the Black in Western Art series (Harvard University). He is editor of the volume New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History (2011) and founder of the Research Forum for German Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh.
