Eric D. Smith is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He is the author of Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (2012) and Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel (2023) and editor of several articles and books, including Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, Ralahine Utopian Studies Vols. 23-24 (2021) and Phantasms of the Red Republic: The Cultural Afterlives of the Paris Commune (forthcoming).