Karen Jacobs听received her BA from Washington University (1982) and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1993). Dr. Jacobs specializes in twentieth-century and contemporary American literature, visual culture studies, and critical theory. She is the new editor of the journal听Genders Future Tense. She is the author of听The Eye鈥檚 Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture听(Cornell 2001); the editor of the听English Language Notes听special issue,听Photography and Literature听(2006), and听Imaginary Cartographies(2014); and the editor of a translation of French critic Liliane Louvel鈥檚听Poetics of the Iconotext听(Ashgate 2011). She has also written on queer theory, collective memory, and public art. She is currently completing two books:听Afterimages: Nabokov 鈥� Sebald 鈥� Cole; and听Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space, for which she recently won an NEH. In Summer 2014 she received the Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism for her article 鈥淪ebald鈥檚 Apparitional Nabokov,鈥� which appears in the journal听Twentieth-Century Literature.