Wendy Knepper is a visiting scholar in World Literature at University of Washington. Her previous publications include Postcolonial Literature (2011) and Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction (2012) as well as contributions to PMLA, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ARIEL, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Small Axe, among others.Courtney Hopf is Lecturer and Programme Manager for Liberal Studies and Creative Arts at New York University London, UK. She has previously published work on Cloud Atlas in David Mitchell: Critical Essays (2011), as well as essays in Alluvium and Rhizomes.

• Series Editors’ PrefaceList of ContributorsChronology of David Mitchell's lifeDavid Mitchell: An introduction: Courtney Hopf and Wendy Knepper1 Globalization in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten: Minding ‘theReality Gap’ Hugh Charles O’Connell - University of Massachusetts Boston, USA2 Questing for the Post-postmodern: David Mitchell'snumber9dream Nick Bentley - Keele University, UK3 ‘What was knowledge for, I would ask myself’: Science,Technology and Pharmakon in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas Martin Paul Eve, University of London, UK4 Witnessing Transhistorical Trauma in Cloud Atlas Jason Mezey - Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA5 Raids on the Inarticulate: The Stammering Narrative of BlackSwan GreenCourtney Hopf, New York University’s London campus, UK6 History, Globalization and the Human Subject in The ThousandAutumns of Jacob de ZoetWilliam Stephenson, University of Chester, UK7 Voicing Tragedy in David Mitchell’s Libretti: Wake and SunkenGardenRose Harris-Birtill, University of St Andrews, UK8 David Mitchell’s Representations of Environmental Crisis andEcological Apocalypse Treasa DeLoughry, University of Exeter, UK9 The Bone Clocks and the Mud of Humanity: The AnthropoceneBildungsromanChris Koenig Woodyard, University of Toronto, Cananda10 David Mitchell as World-Builder: The Bone Clocks and Slade HouseWendy Knepper, Brunel University, UKCreating a Fictional Universe: An Interview with David MitchellCourtney HopfFurther ReadingIndex