John Plotz
John Plotz is a professor of Victorian literature at Brandeis University and cohosts the podcast Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics(University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move(Princeton University Press, 2008), and Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience from Dickens to Keaton(Princeton University Press, 2017). His current project, on the satirical tradition in science fiction, is provisionally titled “Laughter Is from Mars.”
