Bridget Chalk is Professor of English at Manhattan College, USA, where she teaches modernism and twentieth and twenty-first-century British and Anglophone literature. Novel Schooling is her second scholarly monograph; her previous book, Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience (2014) was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Bridget has also published essays on modern and contemporary fiction in Modernism/Modernity, The Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and elsewhere, as well as having contributed a chapter to The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1980-the present (2019).