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Samuel A. Chambers & Alan Finlayson
Johns Hopkins University & Swansea University
From www.swanseapolitics.org.uk:

Dr. Alan Finlayson
MA (Cantab), PhD (Belfast)
Reader in Politics
Office: 029
Email: A.Finlayson@swan.ac.uk
Phone: 4290
Career Biography
Alan specialises in the study of political theory, British politics, ideology and mass culture. After studying at Cambridge he worked at Queen’s in Belfast for several years before joining the Department in Swansea in 2000
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Alan teaches about the politics of contemporary media (film, newspapers, television and internet) for the Level 1 module Watching Them, Watching Us: Politics, Media and Culture. He also lectures on Marxism, theories of class politics and multiculturalism for the Level 2 module Class, Nation, Gender and Politics, supervises Level 3 Researching Politics topics concerned with the contemporary Labour Party and the Northern Irish peace process and at MA level teaches about key Conceptual Issues in the Theory and Method of the Social Sciences.

Samuel A. Chambers & Alan Finlayson
Johns Hopkins University & Swansea University
From www.swanseapolitics.org.uk:

Dr. Samuel A. Chambers
BA (Pomona), MA (Vanderbilt), PhD (Minnesota)
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Office: 029
Email: s.a.chambers@swansea.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1792 513180
Career Biography
Sam spent five years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He then taught at the University of Redlands and Pennsylvania State University before joining the department at Swansea. Sam is General Series co-editor of the new Routledge book series, Innovators in Political Theory. He is also the area convenor for Western Britain chapter of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT), which is housed at Swansea.
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Sam has very broad interests in contemporary political theory. His writings focus on the intersection of culture and politics (especially in the form of film and television), on the theory and practice of gender and sexuality, and on debates over language and history as they affect theories of democracy and concepts of the political. Sam has published more than two dozen journal articles and book chapters, with his work appearing in a variety of outlets, including the following journals: American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, Political Studies, New Political Science, Politics and Gender, Theory & Event, and Contemporary Political Theory.

He has published 2 books, with a third currently in press:

Untimely Politics (2003)
Judith Butler and Political Theory
(with Terrell Carver, 2008)
The Queer Politics of Television (2008)