Gordon Fraser is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester, and he is the author of Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). He has written for academic journals, such as PMLA and American Quarterly, and more popular venues, such as the Washington Post and the Times Literary Supplement. He is currently at work on a book entitled Engineering Peace: Technology and the End of Politics in the American Nineteenth Century. Gordon is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.