She earned her BBA at the University of Notre Dame (1987), worked on Wall Street, then earned an M.A. In English (1991) from New York University and a PhD in English literature from the University of Notre Dame (1999). Laura Winkiel’s research interests include modernism, postcolonial literature and theory. She has written articles for Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Safundi, as well as for several essay collections. She is author of Modernism, Race and Manifestos (Cambridge, 2008) and co-editor of Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (Indiana, 2005). She has served as American editor of Twentieth Century and Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literature for Literature Compass and is currently Senior Editor of English Language Notes. She is currently working on a book called Epic Proportions: The Encyclopedic Novel and the Archive of Empire.