Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine and a faculty associate in the department of anthropology. She is a member and former director of the Critical Theory Institute and teaches in the newly founded Program in Theory and Culture. Her books include "Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction"; "The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language"; and, with William Maurer, "Accelerating Possessions: Global Futures of Property and Personhood,"