David Pike has taught in the Department of Literature at American University since 1995. His most recent monograph is After the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the 21st Century (Manchester UP, 2024). He is the author of Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades (Oxford UP, 2021), Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World (U of Toronto P, 2012); Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001 (Cornell UP, 2007); Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800–1945 (Cornell UP), shortlisted for the 2006 Modernist Studies Association book prize; Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Cornell UP), recipient of the 1997 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997; and articles on medieval literature, modernism, film, neo-Victorianism, subterranea, urban fantasy, global urban culture, slum imaginaries, and Paris and London. He is co-author of Literature: A World of Writing; co-general editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature; co-editor of Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives, and co-author of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023), awarded the Anthony Leeds Prize from the Critical Urban Anthropology Association.