Scarlett Baron is an Associate Professor in the English Department at University College London. She is the author of ‘Strandentwining Cable’: Joyce, Flaubert, and Intertextuality (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity (Routledge, 2019). Her current research focuses on the representation of the self in contemporary autofiction. She is the co-host of the Selfy Stories podcast, which marries philosophy and literature to consider conceptions of the self in the twenty-first century.