Lisa Rodensky is the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. She is the editor of Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu and the author of The Crime In Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel. Rodensky is currently working on a manuscript entitled Novel Judgments: Critical Terms of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel Review that examines vocabulary used in reviewing.