Yael Levin is associate professor of English, the associate provost for academic affairs at the Rothberg International School and President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is currently working at the Mandel Scholion Research Center on 'The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture'. Her monographs include Joseph Conrad: Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in journals and volumes including The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies.