Eric Wertheimer

Eric
Wertheimer is
Professor of English and Associate Vice Provost of the Graduate College at
Arizona State University, where he is the Founding Director of the Center for Critical Inquiry
and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New
World of American Literature, 1771-1876, as well as many works of poetry
and prose. Mylar, his first book of
poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in 2012.