Jeffrey Einboden received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2005 and is currently Associate Professor in the English Department at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, he has authored Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages; and in 2006 his article “The Genesis of Weltliteratur” was named one of the “100 seminal articles” published by Oxford University Press Journals during the past century. He lives in Geneva, New York.