Kent Puckett is Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2008), Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2016), War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939–1945 (Fordham University Press, 2017), and The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2022).