Benjamin Kohlmann is Professor of English at Regensburg University and the author of Committed Styles: Modernism Politics and Left-Wing Literature (Oxford UP, 2014) and British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States (Oxford UP, 2021). His articles have been published in ELH, PMLA, Novel, and elsewhere. He is working on a global history of the radical bildungsroman, 1820–2020.