Johannes Voelz is Akademischer Rat auf Zeit at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. From October 2012 to September 2014 he was a Humboldt-Foundation Fellow at Stanford University. He is the author of Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson’s Challenge (UP New England, 2010) and co-editor of several books, most recently The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies After the Transnational Turn (with Ramón Saldívar and Laura Bieger, UP New England, 2013). He is currently editing a special issue for the journal Telos (“Security and Liberalism”).