Ingo Berensmeyer is Professor of Modern English Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a visiting professor at Ghent University. His previous publications include Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture (co-edited with Andrew Hadfield, 2016), and over seventy essays in collections and journals, including New Literary History, Poetics Today, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Anglia, and Poetica.