John Lutz is chair of the liberal arts department at the LIU Post Campus of Long Island University. He teaches philosophy and literature, empathy and ethics, moral philosophy, postcolonial literature and theory, political philosophy and twentieth-century literature. His publications include articles in Mississippi Quarterly, Conradiana, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, LIT, Research in African Literatures, Rethinking Marxism, Mosaic, and The Faulkner Journal.