Branka ArsicBranka Arsic is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She is the author of Bird Relics, Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (Harvard, 2015), On Leaving, A Reading in Emerson(Harvard, 2010), Passive Constitutions or 71/2 Times Bartleby (Stanford UP, 2007). She is co-editor (with Cary Wolfe) of The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and editor of The American Impersonal (Bloomsbury, 2014). Read More Read Less