Matthew Taunton is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture (forthcoming) and Fictions of the City: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris (2009). He has also written various articles and book chapters on modern literature and politics, and on cities. With Benjamin Kohlmann, he co-edited a 2015 special issue of Literature & History on the subject of literary anti-Communism. He is deputy editor of Critical Quarterly.