Sara Crangle is Professor of Modernism & the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex. Her books include Prosaic Desires: Modernist Knowledge, Boredom, Laughter, and Anticipation (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Stories and Essays of Mina Loy (Dalkey Archive, 2011) and, with Peter Nicholls, On Bathos: Literature, Art, Music (Bloomsbury, 2012). She is currently completing a monograph entitled Mina Loy: Anatomy of a Sacrificial Satirist (forthcoming with Edinburgh). She brought Anna Mendelssohn's archive to Sussex Special Collections in 2010.