Andrew Dean is Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Australia. His work has been published in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J. M. Coetzee, and The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee. He is also the author of a book of political history, Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies (Bridget Williams Books, 2015).