David Linton Editor & Author

Len Platt is Professor of Modern Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests include modern literature, James Joyce and popular musical theatre and his publications include James Joyce: Texts and Contexts (2011), Modernism and Race (edited, 2010), Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' (2006), Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890–1939 (2004) and Aristocracies of Fiction (2003). Tobias Becker is a lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses upon the history of popular culture and urban history in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his publications include Inszenierte Moderne. Populäres Theater in Berlin und London, 1880–1930 (2014) and Die Stadt der tausend Freuden. Vergnügungskultur um 1900 (edited with Anna Littmann and Johanna Niedbalski, 2011). David Linton is a theatre practitioner and an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research interests include multidisciplinary participatory arts practice, popular musical theatre, Black performance and the formation and representation of national and cultural identities.