Benjamin Kohlmann teaches English literature at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s (2014) and Speculative States: Literature and Reform in Britain, 1870-1920 (2020). His articles have been published in PMLA, ELH, Novel, and other journals. He has co-edited several essay collections and special issues, including new work on literature and anti-communism (with Matthew Taunton), modernist utopianism, and the communist writer Edward Upward. Matthew Taunton is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at University of East Anglia. He is the author of Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture (2018) and Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (2009). He has also written various articles and book chapters on modern literature and politics, and on cities. With Benjamin Kohlmann, he co-edited a 2015 special issue of Literature & History on the subject of literary anti-Communism. He is deputy editor of Critical Quarterly.