Prof. Matthew BeaumontTranscript56m
Imagining new worlds in genres like speculative fiction and sci fi doesn't just help us envision possible futures; it also gives us a powerful way to think about our world as it is now.
Matthew Beaumont is a Professor of English Literature at University College London in the UK, where he is Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. His work focuses on representations of the metropolitan city, particularly at nighttime, as well as nineteenth-century literature, film, crime fiction, utopian and dystopian literature, and many other genres of English literature and literary theory.
Matthew joins us in The Garden to explore what the fictional worlds we create tell us about the world we wish we had.
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