Tanya Agathocleous is Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center and the author of Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere (Cornell UP, 2021), which explores the literary and political implications of the criminalization of “disaffected” speech in India under colonial rule. Other works include Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge, 2011); an anthology of pedagogical essays, Teaching Literature: A Companion (Palgrave, 2003) the Broadview edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent and two Penguin editions: Great Expectations and Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag. Alongside these works and academic articles, she has also written for Public Books and LARB.