Siân Adiseshiah is Professor of Literature, Politics and Performance, and Head of the English Department at Loughborough University. Her main research interests are in contemporary theatre, utopianism, and age studies. She is author of Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre (2023) and Churchill’s Socialism: Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill (2009), and co-editor (with Jacqueline Bolton) of debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives (2020), (with Louise LePage) of Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now, and (with Rupert Hildyard) of Twenty-First Century Fiction: What Happens Now (2013). She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal C21 Literature, and Editor of new Liverpool University Press book series ‘Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations’.