Jed Esty specializes in twentieth-century British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures, with additional interests in critical theory, history and theory of the novel, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the Victorian novel. After receiving his BA from Yale University and PhD from Duke University, he taught for several years at Harvard University and at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) before joining the Penn faculty. He is the author of A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton 2004) and coeditor, with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Antoinette Burton, and Matti Bunzl, of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke 2005). He is currently at work on a book entitled Tropics of Youth: The Bildungsroman and Colonial Modernity. Esty has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the NEH, and the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois; he has published essays in Modern Fiction Studies, Victorian Studies, Modernism/Modernity, ELH, ALH, Contemporary Literature, Narrative, and the Yale Journal of Criticism.