Rob Jacklosky is a professor of English and Director of the Core Curriculum at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in The Bronx. He co-wrote, with Matthew Kaiser, a chapter on Dickens and shame in volume five of Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire, edited by Matthew Kaiser and Andrew Stott (Bloomsbury 2020). He co-wrote, with Matthew Leporati, an essay for the collection Isn’t it Ironic: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture, edited by Ian Kinane (Routledge 2021).