Lee Clark Mitchell is Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton University, where he has served as Chair of the English Department and Director of the Program in American Studies. He teaches courses in American literature and film, with recent essays focusing on Cormac McCarthy, John Williams, the Coen brothers, Henry James, and noir fiction. His latest books are iMere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novelsr (2017) and Late Westerns:
Genre Expectations and Border Crossings (2018).