Julian Hanna was born in Vancouver and has previously taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Lisbon. He has written extensively about modernism and the avant-garde for publications such as the Journal of Modern Literature, Modernist Cultures, and Modernism/Modernity, and in a book, Key Concepts in Modernist Literature. Recently his work has expanded to include design fiction, literature and technology, and creative facets of Human-Computer Interaction. He co-authors a critical futures blog with the designer James Auger called Crap Futures; in 2017 they won the CCCB Cultural Innovation International Award for a project called The Newton Machine. He has two manifesto-related books forthcoming: Manifestos in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan) and The Manifesto Handbook (Zero Books).