Darko R. Suvin

, born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, university teacher, literary and theatre  critic, poet and writer, studied at the Universities of Zagreb, Bristol (U.K.), the Sorbonne (France), and Yale before getting his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (drama) at U. of Zagreb. He is Professor Emeritus at McGill University, a fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences); Research associate, Dip. di anglistica, Univ. di Pisa, Italy; membro  del Collegio, Dottorato in Italianistica, Dipt. di l. e lett. moderne e comparate, Univ. Roma 2 ‑ Tor Vergata; member of P.E.N. Club italiano (Milano). His fields of interest are literary Science Fiction, history/memory of socialist Yugoslavia, Brecht's theater, political epistemology. He writes bilingual poetry.