Alys Moody is an Australian scholar and writer, living and working in the US, where she teaches literature at Bard College, in upstate New York. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic autonomy and the afterlives of modernism and the editor, with Stephen J Ross, of Global Modernists on Modernism: An anthology. She is currently completing a scholarly book on world hunger and world literature and translating the collected works of Martinican communist and surrealist René Ménil. She continues to hesitate over one last unfinished essay that draws on Coetzee’s archive.