Jan Mieszkowski is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He is the author of Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham, 2006) and Watching War (Stanford, 2012). His recent articles explore a variety of topics in Romanticism, Modernism, and critical theory. He has also published and lectured widely on military spectatorship and the spectacles of the permanent war economy. Mieszkowski is currently completing a new book called Crises of the Sentence.