James Chandler’s books include England in 1819 (University of Chicago Press, 1998), a study of literary historicism and its limits that won the Laing Prize at University of Chicago Press in 2000; An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2013), which traces the formal foundations of modern narrative cinema to the early sentimental movement in literature and moral philosophy; and Doing Criticism: Across Literary and Screen Arts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022). He is currently working on a new book titled “Figures in a Field: Wordsworth and Edgeworth.” Chandler is the William K. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.