Anna Svensson has a BA in English language and literature (University of Oxford, 2008) and an MSc in international museum studies (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2012). She is currently working on her PhD under Sverker Sörlin, Sabine Höhler, and Peder Roberts in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm; the working title of her thesis is “The utopia of universal knowledge in the early modern collecting culture: establishing the botanic garden in Oxford.” Anna presented the paper “Conceptualising utopia: a rescue mission at the fact/fiction divide,” at the Intellectual History Graduate Conference “Ideas at Work” at Aarhus University, December 13–14, 2013. She was also a participant in the National Environmental History PhD workshop at the Australian National University, May 26–30, 2014.