Jason Frank is the Robert J. Katz Chair of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He has published widely on democratic theory, American political thought, modern political theory, politics and literature, and political aesthetics. His previous books include Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (Duke University Press, 2010), Publius and Political Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and A Political Companion to Herman Melville (University Press of Kentucky, 2013). His research has appeared in Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History, The Review of Politics, and Public Culture, and his political commentary has been published in such outlets as the Boston Review and the New York Times.