Chris Nealon is chair of the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two books of criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, and three books of poetry: The Joyous Age, Plummet, and Heteronomy. A chapbook, The Victorious Ones, is recently out from Commune Editions. He lives in Washington, DC.