Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine and a faculty associate in the department of anthropology. She is a member and former director of the Critical Theory Institute and teaches in the newly founded Program in Theory and Culture. Her books include Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction; The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language; and, with William Maurer, Accelerating Possessions: Global Futures of Property and Personhood.