Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the Pennsylvania State University. His fields of specialization include European literatures of the early modern period; criticism and theory; epistolarity; translation studies; millennial studies; and law and literature. His forthcoming books are: Citation and Precedent: German Law and Literature (Continuum) and a translation of Moacyr Scliar’s Kafka’s Leopards (Texas Tech).