Eric Wertheimer

Eric Wertheimer is Professor of English and American Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America, and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876. He has published poetry in Exquisite Corpse, Perihelion, Diagram, Shampoo, Adirondack Review, Muse Apprentice Guild, among other journals. His book of poetry, Mylar, was published by blazeVOX Press in 2012.