Douglas Mao is Russ Family Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (Princeton, 1998) and Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960 (Princeton, 2008) as well as the co-editor, with Rebecca Walkowitz, of Bad Modernisms (Duke, 2006). A past president of the Modernist Studies Association, he has held a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and currently serves as Series Editor of Hopkins Studies in Modernism and Senior Editor of ELH.