Marianna Papastephanouhas studied Philosophy at the University of Cardiff (Wales) and Berlin (Germany). She has taught in the department of Philosophy at Cardiff and she is currently teaching Philosophy of Education at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include educational utopianism, cosmopolitanism and postmodernism. Her major fields are philosophy and educational philosophy. Guiding threads of her recent philosophical work have been: conceptual tasks such as reformulations of utopianism and cosmopolitanism; and theoretical discussions of intersections of these themes with education. For instance, she explores the relevance of utopia and dystopia to transformative pedagogy or the significance of an eccentric rather than concentric cosmopolitanism for cultivating critical subjectivities. pp. 124–144