David R. Shumway is Professor of English, and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen (2014), John Sayles (2012), Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003), Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (1994), and Michel Foucault (1989).