James Chandler is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. His publications include England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema, and Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy.