S. D. Chrostowska is professor of humanities at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (Un...view moreS. D. Chrostowska is professor of humanities at York University, Toronto. She is the author of Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (University of Toronto Press, 2012) and Matches: A Light Book (Punctum, 2015, 2nd enl. ed. 2019), and coeditor of Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives (Columbia University Press, 2017).view less