John Marx teaches in the English Department of the University of California, Davis. He is currently at work on “After the Urban Revolution,” a book that explains how recent mass media (including novels, movies, and video games) are remaking the world’s megacities. He is also collaborating on a project concerning the old/new politics of digital humanities called “Mass Media and the Humanities Workforce” with Mark Garrett Cooper from the University of South Carolina. Marx is an Editor of the journal Contemporary Literature and the author of numerous articles and two books, most recently Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 (Cambridge UP, 2012).