William Stephenson

William Stephenson is a reader in English at the University of Chester, teaching modules on utopianism, science fiction and literary theory. His latest academic book is Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson’s America (Continuum, 2011). He is also the author of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Continuum, 2007) and John Fowles (Northcote, 2003). He has published journal articles and book chapters on several authors including J. G. Ballard, Iain Banks, Bret Easton Ellis, John Fowles, Alex Garland, William Golding, James Joyce, Hunter S. Thompson and Irvine Welsh. As well as contributing chapters on modern and postmodern literature to Studying English Literature , ed. Ashley Chantler and David Higgins (Continuum, 2010), he has recently published essays on David Mitchell in Critical Essays on David Mitchell , ed. Sarah Dillon(Gylphi, 2011) and on Hunter S. Thompson in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 52:2. His forthcoming work includes book chapters on Timothy Leary and David Mitchell. His poetry collections are Rain Dancers in the Data Cloud (Templar, 2012) and Source Code (Ravenglass, 2013).