KATE SOPER is Professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is well known for her work on the philosophy of nature and as a theorist of need and consumption, and has recently been a lead researcher in the ESRC/AHRC Cultures of Consumption Programme. She is co-editor (with Frank Trentmann) of Citizenship and Consumption.
MARTIN RYLE is Reader in the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, UK, where he teaches literature and cultural studies. He has published and edited books and articles on a wide range of nineteenth and twentieth-century writing.
LYN THOMAS is Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Annie Ernaux: An Introduction to the Writer and her Audience, Fans, Feminisms and Quality Media and Annie Ernaux, la premire personne.
