Vincent P. Pecora is the Gordon B. Hinckley Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Utah. His books include Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), and, as editor, Nations and Identities: Classic Readings (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).