About Imre Szeman Imre Szeman holds the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and is the cofounder of the Petrocultures Research Group. He is the coauthor of After Oil and the coeditor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Books by Imre Szeman Petrocultures Oil, Politics, Culture edited by Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson & Imre Szeman Concepts of Culture Art, Politics, and Society contributions by Adam Muller, Christoph Brumann, Geoffrey Hartman, Jacques Barzun, Mette Hjort, Imre Szeman, David Novitz, Robert Stecker, Martin Roberts, Jim Parry, Martha Nussbaum, Rhonda Martens & Carl Matheson