I’m a writer/editor based in Melbourne, Australia. I’m the editor of Architectural Review Australia and I write on architecture, urbanism, film, travel and literature for academic and mainstream journals, books, magazines and websites. I’m a former research fellow in the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, and a former research associate in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University. In 2009 I graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Monash University. My thesis was on the ‘affirmative dystopias’ of novelist J.G. Ballard.

In 2005 I founded ballardian.com, a popular website on Ballard. I’m currently working with the Ballard Estate and Dan O’Hara (University of Cologne) on a series of archival volumes. The first of these, Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008, is due for publication in 2012 (HarperCollins), as is my book, Applied Ballardianism (Zer0 Books).