Alec Charles is dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winchester, and has previously worked as a print and broadcast journalist and taught at universities in Hull, Chester, Luton, Cornwall, Oxford, Estonia and Japan. He is the author of Interactivity: New Media, Politics & Society (Peter Lang, 2012), Out of Time: The Deaths and Resurrections of Doctor Who (Peter Lang, 2015), Political Animals: News of the Natural World (Peter Lang, 2016) and Underwords: Re-reading the Subtexts of Modernism (Peter Lang, 2018).