Utopia

Duncan Bell, Professor of Political Thought and International Relations, University of Cambridge,Douglas Mao, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, English Department, Johns Hopkins University

Duncan Bell is Professor of Political Thought and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent monograph is Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton UP, 2020).


Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent monograph is Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice (Princeton UP, 2020). A former president of the Modernist Studies Association, he has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and currently serves as editor of Hopkins Studies in Modernism, a book series from Johns Hopkins University Press.