Lit Prof@Penn. Studying the wax & wane of cultural power. *Future of Decline* (2022) on the Anglo ebb. *Cold War Victorians* (2025) on peak UK novels/US films.

Novelist, essayist. Pronounced "Row": a British argument. He/him. My new novel, THE NEW EARTH, is coming in March 2023! Preorders and info at http://bit.ly/3B9usiG