1. Katherine Biers is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and is coeditor (with Sharon Marcus) of a special issue of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film on global theatre and performance (Winter 2015). She has published articles on American theatre and literature in Modern Drama, Textual Practice, and Representations.