I am a cultural sociologist specialising in visual and popular culture, together with cultural, Utopian, and critical theory. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard before gaining my doctorate at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I am now Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology at King’s College London. My books include three editions of Visual Culture (now in its third edition); A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design; The Myth of the Titanic (two edtitions); Using Visual Evidence (edited with Robert Matson, University of Pittsburgh); and Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society, edited with Andrea Ritivoi and Judith Schachter (Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University). I live in London and West Sussex with my wife, the designer Sarah Howson.