Joel Pfister is Olin Professor of English and Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University, USA. His previous books include The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction; Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse; The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud; Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis; Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America; Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern; and Critique for What? Culture Studies, American Studies, Left Studies.