Michael A Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (School of Art). He held joint professorial positions at the Universities of Auckland (NZ) and Glasgow (UK). He was elected Academic Vice-President of the New Zealand Association of University Teachers. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (Symposium). His interests focus broadly on education, philosophy and social theory and he has written some forty books and many academic papers, including most recently: Governmentality and Beyond: Education and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Sense, 2008 forthcoming); Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher (Paradigm, 2008) with Nick Burbules and Paul Smeyers; Global Knowledge Cultures (Sense) with Cushla Kapitizke; Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and The Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2008) with Tina Besley; Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007) with Tina Besley; Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007); Building Knowledge Cultures: Educational and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), with Tina Besley. Currently, he is writing a number of books including; New Europe, Old America (Paradigm), Derrida, Politics and Humanism (Peter Lang) with Gert Biesta, Neoliberalism and Intellectual Life (Sense), and Education and the Virtues of Openness (Peter Lang), both with Peter Roberts.