Elaine Freedgood

is a Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Victorian Writing About Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge, 2000); The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago, 2006); and Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel (Princeton, 2019). Freedgood’s research focuses on archives broadly conceived; peculiar histories of the novel; contemporary global fiction; critical theory, especially Marxist, postcolonial and queer; Conceptual poetry, prose and visual art. Mail: ef38@nyu.edu