John Storey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in cultural studies, including nine books. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian, and he has been invited to give more than thirty keynote addresses in countries around the world. He is also on the editorial/advisory boards of journals in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, Spain, the UK, and USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, the University of Henan and the University of Wuhan.