Chris Nealon is Professor in the Department of English at at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (Duke UP, 2001), and two books of poems: The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004), and Plummet (Edge Books, 2009). He recently completed a book of criticism called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Spectacle in the American Century (Harvard, 2011).