Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature. His books include Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Poe and the Subversion of American Literature; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom ); Utopia in the Age of Globalization; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel; Melville, Mapping and Globalization; and, as editor, Geocritical Explorations, Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights, and Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative (forthcoming). Tally also serves as the general editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies.
