Dr Ivan Stacy is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University. He is the author of The Complicit Text: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction, published by Lexington in 2021. He has also published articles on Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, China Miéville, and on the American television series The Wire, focusing on his main research interests, which are complicity and the carnivalesque. He has taught in China, Thailand, the UK, Bhutan, Libya, and South Korea.