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Anderson has authored influential books including Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell University Press, 1993), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton University Press, 2001), The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton University Press, 2006), Bleak Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2018; based on Clarendon Lectures), and Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (University of Chicago Press, 2019; with Rita Felski and Toril Moi). Forthcoming is Humanities Theory (Oxford University Press, 2025; with Simon During). She co-edited A Companion to George Eliot (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press, 2002). Her honors include the Berlin Prize and John P. Birkelund Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin (2019-2020), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009-2010), Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University (2015), and Presidential Award Lecture at Brown University (2022). Anderson leads the Cogut Institute’s Collaborative Humanities Initiative and delivers lectures on topics such as political psychology, literary form, and method debates in literary studies.