Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research and teaching bring together literary theory, cultural and social history, and gender and sexuality studies. A founding editor of the online magazine Public Books, she is the author of many books and articles, including Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (1999), Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007), and The Drama of Celebrity (2019).