He received his BA in modern languages (German) from the University of Oxford and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. His book, Imperial Messages: Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle, came out with Camden House in 2011. His research interests include turn-of-the-century Austria, postcolonialism, and transnationalism, and he has written articles on Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Dr. Lemon’s current project examines the significance of concepts associated with ethnography and ethnology in Kafka’s texts.