Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. He co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson, and co-edits the international poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen.