Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Prior to coming to Alberta in 2009, he worked at McMaster University, where he was Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Culture Studies (2004-2009) and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (2003-2005). Szeman is the recipient of the John Polanyi Prize in Literature (2000), the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2003), the Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization (2004), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2005-7), the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision at McMaster (2008), and the Killam Research Professorship, among other awards. Szeman’s main areas of research are in social and cultural theory, globalization and culture, and popular and visual culture. Recent books include Cultural Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, Malden, 2010, co-ed), After Globalization (Blackwell, Malden, 2011, with Eric Cazdyn), Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2012, co-ed), and the third edition of Popular Culture: A User’s Guide (Nelson, Scarborough, 2013, with Susie O’Brien). Current projects include a book on the cultural politics of oil and an edited collection on energy, society, and culture.