William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature emeritus at Rutgers University. His previous publications include The Epistolary Moment A Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, JamesonAlthusserMarx, The Senses of the Text Intensional Semantics and Literary History, Ricoeur on Time and Narrative, and Confessions of a Spoilsport, an account of the struggle against commercialized college athletics at Rutgers and other Div IA schools. ln 20l2 he received the Drake Group's Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for his advocacy of a return to participatory athletics in American higher education. A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest, co-authored with Robert H. Bell of Williams College, was published by Xlibris in 2005.