Utopian studies

Significant utopian studies scholars (in roughly chronological order)

• Karl Mannheim
• Ernst Bloch
• Krishnan Kumar
• Raymond Williams
• Darko Suvin
• Lyman Tower Sargent
• Gregory Claeys
• Ruth Levitas
• Tom Moylan
• Fredric Jameson
• Lucy Sargisson
• Vincent Geoghegan
• Raffaella Baccolini

  Principal journals, conferences, societies, awards

• Society for Utopian Studies
• Utopian Studies Society

• Utopian Studies

• Society for Utopian Studies, annual
• Utopian Studies Society, annual

• The Lyman Tower Sargent Distinguished Scholar Award, made by the Society for Utopian Studies.

  Significant works

• Ernst Bloch. The Principle of Hope. 3 Vols. Trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, Paul Knight. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986 .
• Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent. The Utopia Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
• Gregory Claeys. The Cambridge Companion to utopian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Vincent Geoghegan. Utopianism and Marxism. London: Methuen, 1987.
• Fredric Jameson. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. London: Verso, 2005.
• Krishnan Kumar. Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
• Krishnan Kumar. Utopianism. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991.
• Ruth Levitas. The Concept of Utopia. London: Allan, 1990.
• Karl Mannheim. Ideology and Utopia: an Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge. Trans. Louis Wirth and Edward Shils. London: Routledge, 1936 .
• Tom Moylan. Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination. London: Methuen, 1986.
• Tom Moylan. Scraps of the Untainted Sky: Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2000.
• Tom Moylan and Rafaella Baccolini. Utopia-Method-Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2007.
• Peter Y. Paik. From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
• Lyman Tower Sargent. British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988.
• Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Lucy Sargisson. Contemporary Feminist Utopianism. London: Routledge, 1996.
• Lucy Sargisson and Lyman Tower Sargent. Living in Utopia: New Zealand's Intentional Communities. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
• Darko Suvin. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
• Darko Suvin. Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology. Frankfurt am Main, Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.
• Raymond Williams. Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia. Ed. Andrew Milner. Frankfurt am Main, Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.