I have published books on American crime fiction, U.S. modernism, and postcolonial historical fiction. My current research project is called “Time and World in Global Anglophone Literature” and asks two literary-theoretical questions: what is the concept of “world” implicit in the idea of “global Anglophone literature”? And how do works in this body of literature link “world” not just to space—to such literature’s “reach” across the globe, for example—but to particular ways of inhabiting time?