Lisa Mendelman is assistant professor of English and digital humanities at Menlo College. She works in the health humanities, with a focus on gender, race, and affect in 20th-century America. Her first book, Modern Sentimentalism: Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America (Oxford University Press, 2019) chronicles the emotional history of the modern woman and the corollary reinvention of sentimentalism in US interwar fiction.











