Robert Cowan is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. He is the author of two hybrid-genre collections - Elsewhen (Paloma Press, 2019) and Close Apart (Paloma Press, 2018) - and three monographs - Solace in Oblivion (Peter Lang, 2020), Teaching Double Negatives (Peter Lang 2018), and The Indo-German Identification (Camden House, 2010), as well as a co-editor of a Festschrift (Peter Lang, forthcoming).