Ian Kinane is Reader in Literature and Popular Culture and Director of the Centre for Society, Culture, and Social Change at the University of Roehampton, UK. His books include On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction (2024), Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence (2021), Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture (2021), Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade (2019), Theorising Literary Islands (2016), and (with Downey and Parker) Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (2016). He is also the general editor of the online, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Ian Fleming.