Tanya Agathocleous teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge, 2011), a Broadview edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a Penguin enhanced edition of Great Expectations, a YA biography of George Orwell, and several academic articles on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century literature in global, transnational and imperial contexts. She has also written for Public Books and LARB. Her forthcoming book is entitled Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere.