In 2024-2025, Luke Vines is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate (ABD) within the English Department at Vanderbilt University. His dissertation project addresses the impact of mathematical developments in the eighteenth century on literature. His interests include adapting criticism so it's accessible to the general public, the relationship between the public and the academy, literary criticism composed within the long eighteenth century, the suicide note and narrative control, and the epistolary form.