Clive is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. When Professor Bloom isn't writing and researching he divides his time between New York University and The University of Notre Dame.

Books include Terror Within: The Dream of a British Republic, Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory; and Gothic Horror, all of which have enjoyed international recognition. He is also an occasional feature writer for the London Evening Standard, regularly appears on television and radio and is quoted in the Columbia Book of World Quotations.

He is currently working on a book on Edwardian terrorism and was a consultant for the recent Jack the Ripper exhibition at the Museum in Docklands. His political writing was recently included at an exhibition at the  Serpentine Gallery and he was a media commentator on the G20 protests.