Professor Stuart Sim is Professor of
Critical Theory in the English dept., University of Sunderland. He
will be co-editing the multi-authored volume of essays, Before Depression.
His research specialisms are seventeenth/eighteenth-century prose
fiction, and recent critical theory (particularly postmodernism).
He is currently working on a monograph for Edinburgh University Press
entitled The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues.
Professor Sim is the author or editor of 23 books, and his work has
been translated into 13 languages. Amongst his recent publications
are, The Discourse of Sovereignty from Hobbes to Fielding (with David
Walker, 2003), Fundamentalist World: The New Dark Age of Dogma (2004),
Empires of Belief: Why We Need More Scepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First
Century (2006). He is a Fellow of the English Association, and joint
editor of the journal Bunyan Studies.