Elaine Freedgood teaches in the Department of English at NYU and in NYU’s Prison Education Program. 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). She is also the editor of Factory Writing in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford 20003). She is currently researching connections between New York University and Sing Sing Prison, part of a larger project on the enduring legacy slavery and the American university.