James K. Chandler is the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literature and Cinema and Media Studies; he is also the Director of both the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Disciplinary Innovation. Chandler has published widely on literature since the eighteenth-century, on topics in Irish Studies, and more recently on cinema. He is currently completing a book tentatively titled: Sentimental Souls: Capra, Dickens, Sterne, and Others.