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Tanya Agathocleous is Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches and researches nineteenth and early twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture in colonial, postcolonial and transnational contexts. Among other works, she is 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 a number of academic articles, she has also written for Public Books and LARB.