Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She has written a number of books on modern literature and culture as well as contemporary debates in the humanities. Her most recent books include Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life after Psychology (Oxford, 2018), Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016), and The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory. She is currently leading an initiative at Brown that promotes collaborative teaching and research across and beyond the humanities disciplines.