Cyrus R. K. Patell is Professor of English at New York University. He received his AB, AM, and PhD in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. His scholarship and teaching center on the theory and practice of world literature; cosmopolitanism; Global Shakespeare; Star Wars; minority discourse theory; literary historiography; and US literary history. His books include Emergent Us Literatures: From Multiculturalism in the Late Twentieth Century (NYU Press, 2014); Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); and, most recently, Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe (Bloomsbury, 2021). Deborah Lindsay Williams is Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University. Her essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Paris Review, Brevity, and The Common. She has published widely about children's literature and about US women's writing, including Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001) and, most recently, The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction in OUP's Literary Agenda series (2023).
