Dr Ingo Cornils is Emeritus Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is interested in (German) Utopian, Fantastic and Romantic Thought in Politics, Literature and Film. He is the Editor of ‘A Companion to the Works of Hermann Hesse’ (2009), Co-Editor (with Osman Durrani) of ‘Hermann Hesse Today / Hermann Hesse Heute’ (2005), (with Frank Finlay) of ‘(Un-)erfüllte Wirklichkeit. Neue Studien zu Uwe Timms Werk’ (2006), (with Gerrit-Jan Berendse) of ‘Baader-Meinhof Returns. History and Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism’ (2008), (with Sarah Waters) of ‘Memories of 1968. International Perspectives’ (2010), (with Ricarda Vidal) of ‘Alternative Worlds. Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900’ (2015), (with Lars Schmeink) of ‘New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction’ (2022), (with Neale Cunningham) of ‘Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact: Past, Present, Future’ (2024), and the Author of ‘Writing the Revolution. The Construction of “1968” in Germany’ (2016) and ‘Beyond Tomorrow. German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries’ (2020).