Graham St John has recently been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland and a Research Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a cultural anthropologist with an interdisciplinary research interest in contemporary dance and youth cultures, countercultures, technology and performance, he has published widely in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, Australian studies and studies in religion.

Graham is currently completing Global Tribe: Technology, Religion and Trance Culture, an ethnography exploring the intersections of new spirituality and technology in global Trance (or Psy-trance) culture.

He recently edited Rave Culture and Religion (New York: Routledge, 2004) and is author of Technomad: Global Post-Rave Counterculture, and editor of Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance (both forthcoming with Berghahn in 2008).