Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature. Tally is the author of six books, including Poe and the Subversion of American Literature: Satire, Fantasy, Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014; named CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014), Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography (Bloomsbury, 2011), and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer (2009). He is the editor of four collections of essays, including The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature (2015).
