Erica Sheen is Professor of Literature and Film at the University of York. She has worked at the Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge, and Oxford, where she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. She has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich, and research residencies at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York, the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.