Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee: My work spans nineteenth-century British and French literature, contemporary literature, and theories of race, gender, and sexuality. I published my first book, Feminine Singularity: the Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth Century Literature, last year. It’s a book that strives for new models of selfhood that do not rely on pre-existing ideas of difference and otherness, which I argue continue to be shaped by nineteenth-century notions of liberalism and empire. I just submitted the manuscript for a Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot’s major novel, Middlemarch. The edition is specially designed for scholars, teachers, and students, and contains lots of secondary material in the form of critical essays, explanatory footnotes, and Eliot’s letters and journals, to help readers coming to the novel for the first time. I am also working on a new project on literature and visual art that centers diagrams and the diagrammatic. I’m interested in what novels take from visual practices of abstraction (like the diagram), and how artists rethink those practices in their own work.