Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC. He is the author of six books, including The New Public Intellectual (co-edited with Jeffrey Di Leo [Palgrave]), The Long Space, (Stanford), Imaginary States (Illinois), Oscillate Wildly (Minnesota) and Dialogics of the Oppressed (Minnesota). His most recent publications include, “Accumulating Fictions” for Representations, “Immolation” for the Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, “How to Read a Discipline” for Comparative Literature, “Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London” for an anthology on Hanif Kureishi, “( ) of Ghosts” in The Spectralities Reader, “The Space of Time: Chronotopes and Crisis” for Primerjalna Knjizevnost, “Defining the World” in Literary Materialisms and “Everything’s Gone Green: The Environment of BP’s Narrative” for Imaginations. Forthcoming articles include an essay, “Viscosity and Velocity,” for an anthology on oil (Cornell), and an essay on communism titled “The Leninist Hypothesis” for Poetics Today. Forthcoming book projects include a monograph on the cultural representation of labor and a monograph on worlds of postcoloniality. He is currently working on two research projects: one about seriality in politics and culture; the other on the aesthetics of commodities and financial instruments.