Factfile: Professor Tom Moylan, University of Limerick

Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of contemporary writing in the department of languages and cultural studies, UL.

Tom Moylan is Glucksman Professor of contemporary writing in the department of languages and cultural studies, UL.

Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PhD (English), 1981; Marquette University, graduate study (theology) 1967-68; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MA (English), 1967; St Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota, BA (English), 1965.

Areas of specialisation: cultural studies, science fiction studies, utopias and utopianism, American studies, contemporary literature.

Books: Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000; Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch. Eds. Jamie Owen Daniel and Tom Moylan. London and New York: Verso, 1997; Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. London and New York: Methuen, 1986.

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Teaching career to date: professor of cultural studies (school of media, critical and creative arts), Liverpool John Moores University 2001-2002; reader, media and cultural studies, 1999-2001, Liverpool John Moores University; associate professor, English department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 1990-1999; visiting professor, English department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1989-1990; visiting professor, media studies, Crawford College of Art, Cork, 1984-85; from instructor to assistant professor to associate professor, 1968-1990, English Department, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha.

Professional memberships include: European thematic network project on "Cultural memory and European identity", European Cultural Commission (Brussels) and University of Bologna; chair, nominating committee, Society for Utopian Studies, since 2000.