Alexander Dunst studied English and American Studies, as well as German and print journalism, at the universitities of Graz, Vienna and Bowling Green State and worked as a political journalist before completing a PhD in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham in 2010. Since then he’s held positions at the University of Potsdam and Paderborn, where he is Assistant Professor of American Studies. He has recently co-edited The World According to Philip K. Dick (Palgrave, 2015) and is the author of Madness in Cold War America (Routledge, 2016).