Joanna FreerJoanna Freer is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Exeter. Her research approaches the work of Thomas Pynchon from a variety of political angles. Her recent publications include an essay collection co-edited with Ali Chetwynd and Gergios Maragos, Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender (2018), an article entitled 'Decolonizing America: Native Americans in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon' (2018), and the monograph Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture (Cambridge, 2014). A special issue of Textual Practice, co-edited with Doug Haynes and addressing Pynchon's engagement with economics, is forthcoming. Read More Read Less