Timothy Aubry is chair of the English department at Baruch College, CUNY. His research focuses on American literature from the twentieth and twenty-first century, contemporary fiction, literary theory and criticism, and popular culture. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point Magazine, n+1, Best American Essays 2014, PMLA, American Studies, and many other venues. At Baruch, he teaches courses in American literature, the modern novel, world literature, and writing.