Gavin Parkinson is Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. He is the author of Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 (2015), Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology (2008), The Duchamp Book (2008) and Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siècle Painting(2018), as well as the editor of Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics (2015).