Peter Hitchcock is Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is also on the faculties of Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the GC, and Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He is the author of five books, including The Long Space, (Stanford University Press). His most recent publications include, “Accumulating Fictions” forRepresentations, “Immolation” for the Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights, “How to Read a Discipline” for Comparative Literature, “Culture and Anarchy in Thatcher’s London” for an anthology on Hanif Kureishi, “( ) of Ghosts” in The Spectralities Reader,“Defining the World” in Literary Materialisms and “Everything’s Gone Green: The Environment of BP’s Narrative” for Imaginations.Forthcoming works include an essay, “Viscosity and Velocity,” for an anthology on oil (Cornell), and an essay on communism titled “The Leninist Hypothesis” for Poetics Today. His current projects include a study of the representation of labor, essays on the “worlds” of postcoloniality and world literature, and a work that juxtaposes commodity culture with financial instruments (“Trading Objects”).