Mary Mullen writes and teaches in Philadelphia. She is the author of Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and many academic articles about realism, institutions, publics, the politics of time, colonialism. She has published and forthcoming personal writing in Hyped on Melancholy, The Nonconformist Magazine, The Rambling, and North Dakota Quarterly.