LISA SIRAGANIAN is the J. R.Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Liter¿ature at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has won multiple awards and has been supported by fellow¿ships from the American Academy of Arts and Sci¿ences, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Siraganian has written award-winning scholarly monographs, including Mod¿ernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life and Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons, books that bridge literary criticism, art criticism, and legal and philosophical scholarship. More recently, she was a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 10th edition.