Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including: Modernism and Time (Cambridge, 2000) and Modernism and Popular Music (Cambridge, 2011). His most recent books are Pain and Suffering (2014; translated into Chinese, 2017); The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices (co-authored with Dr Jerry Vannatta, 2013). He is co-editor of Contemporary Literary Criticism (1998) and is the former editor of Genre.