Carl Fisher is an associate professor of comparative literature. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA, where he worked as an assistant to Dr. Arnold Band in his "Literature of the Holocaust" class. He has taught at UCLA and UC Davis as well as Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. He has published articles on Rousseau, Defoe, Sterne, Godwin, and the representation of pigs in the eighteenth century (including antisemitic representations). He is editing a volume of essays for the Modern Language Association on approaches to teaching Robinson Crusoe, and he was recently appointed the book review editor of the journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies (along with Clorinda Donato). He also has a scholarly interest in researching the ethical issues involved in fictional representiations of the holocaust.