I'm an associate professor and the undergraduate coordinator in the English Department at the University of Georgia, where I teach classes on nineteenth-century British literature, the novel, and the history of media and information. I'm the author of *Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems* (Stanford 2008), as well as of various essays on literature, science, and media. I'm at work on a book about the invention of media in the late nineteenth century.