Susan S. Lanser is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. Her scholarship encompasses work in narratology, the novel, feminist theory, sexuality studies, eighteenth-century European literature and culture, and the French Revolution. Her books include The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction (1981), Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (1992), and The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic 1565-1830 (2014), honored by the American Historical Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Lamba Literary Foundation. Her most recent anthology, co-edited with Robyn Warhol, is Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Approaches (2015).