Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing at Hull University UK; Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University UK; Research Fellow at New York University USA and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times The Times The Guardian The Independent The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard Bloom is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics including the political histories of London Violent City and Riot City. He has won a Bram Stoker Award been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award twice and is editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishing house. An international key note speaker he has given addresses to the Association of Forensic Psychiatrists and Gresham College jointly curated two exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street at the Museum of London and has advised the British Cabinet Office on publish disorder issues. Language: English