Mike Gane attended schools in Poole Dorset before taking degrees at Leicester University and London School of Economics (1973). He taught social sciences at Loughborough University from 1972 to 2008. He is the author of Harmless Lovers? Gender, Theory and Personal Relationships (Routledge, 1993), and has edited with Nicholas Gane Roland Barthes (3 vols, Sage 2004) and Umberto Eco (3 vols, Sage 2005).
