Ann Banfield, Professor Emerita, English Department, University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982), The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (2000) and Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays, Sylvie Patron, ed. (2019).