John Tomlinson is Professor of Cultural Sociology, Head of Research in Communications, Cultural and Media Studies and Director of the Institute for Cultural Analysis, Nottingham at Nottingham Trent University. He has written extensively on the themes of cultural globalization, cosmopolitanism, cultural modernity and mediated cultural experience. Publications include Cultural Imperialism (Pinter/Continuum 1991), Globalization and Culture (Polity 1999) and The Culture of Speed (Sage 2007). He has lectured at many distinguished universities and research institutions across Europe, the United States and East Asia as well as at artistic institutions such as The Bauhaus Institute, Dessau; Tate Britain; the Impakt Arts Festival, Utrecht; and the Festival Filosofia, Modena.
