Marian Eide is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Ethical Joyce (Cambridge 2002), After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac 2018--with Michael Gibler, col. ret. U.S. Army-Infantry), and the Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature (UVAPress, 2019), as well as more than a dozen articles on twentieth-century literature and culture. She has been a fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah and at the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Her research concerns ethics, aesthetics, and violence.