Robert Lederer teaches Literature and Cultural Studies at Arcadia University. He completed his PhD in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis titled “The Rise of the Curator: Archiving the Self in Contemporary American Fiction”. Rob has written reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, Textual Practice, and Comparative Critical Studies, and has previously been a Writing Support Fellow at Boston University in London. He is currently working on converting his doctoral dissertation into a book and on a new project about aesthetic judgments.