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Douglas Mao

Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins. He has served as senior editor of the journal ELH and is currently series editor for Hopkins Studies in Modernism (from the Johns Hopkins University Press). His most recent books are Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice (Princeton, 2020) and The New Modernist Studies (Cambridge, 2021). icon

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