Dr. Tamkin Hussain holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in New York where she defended her dissertation on feminine representations in the aesthetics of Deleuze and Guattari, Bernard Stiegler and Jacques Derrida. Her current research focuses upon the connection between technologies of inscription and politics of the body in art and literature. She has recently taught courses on Literary Theory and Utopian Literatures, with an emphasis on contemporary issues on humanism, gender politics and futuristic virtualities.