The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940

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 and 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 lectures in nineteenth and twentieth-century art and theory at the University of Edinburgh, He has taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Loughbourough, and Sussex as well as at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London He has published extensively on German and Austrian visual culture, specialising on the Expressionist group, the Brucke. He has held a Luftbrucken-Fellowship at the Humboldt University, and been a recipient of awards from AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), the Rifkind Foundation (LACMA), and the Wingate Foundation.