Charlotte Sussman is Professor of English at Duke University, USA. She is the author of three books-Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus(2020);Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1660-1789(2011); andConsuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833(2000) -and the co-editor, with Jillian Heydt-Stevenson,of Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830 (2008). Her articles on eighteenth-century literature,colonialism, migration, and slavery have appeared in PMLA, Modern Philology, ELH, Cultural Critique,Nineteenth-Century Literature,and other journals and edited collections. Between 2017 and 2020, shewas co-director of the Representing Migration Humanities Lab at Duke University, funded by aHumanities Unbounded Mellon grant.