I was delighted to be asked to chair a recent panel discussion for the British Academy on Dystopian Literature in Our Time. The panel brought together three important contemporary writers, Season Butler (author of Cygnet, 2019), Francesca Haig (author of The Fire Sermon trilogy, 2014-17) and...

I was thrilled to be invited by the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick to give the opening keynote lecture for their conference “(Un)Fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts” co-organised with the Association for Literary Urban Studies...

In July 2018, I was delighted to be invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at After Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, the fifth annual conference organised by Fantastika Journal. The theme of the 2018 conference was what comes ‘after’, with papers...

The Los Angeles Review of Books recently published a review article of China Miéville: Critical Essays, the collection I co-edited for Gylphi published in 2015. Gylphi also published Carl Freedman's excellent Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville, which was also...

As part of the New Scientist Live 2017 festival of ideas, I was thrilled to be asked to interview Margaret Atwood. The event, titled "Science, fiction and the future", took place on the Main Stage – VIP Area at the ExCeL Centre in London on Sunday 1st October...