Emily Sun is Tow Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (2010), On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China (2021), and essays on Romanticism and comparative literature, with emphasis on comparative literary historiography and politics and aesthetics. Orrin N. C. Wang teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author and editor of several books and numerous articles on British Romanticism and literary theory. He has won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize and also received the Keats Shelley Association of America's Distinguished Scholar Award.