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**Tim Engles** is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, USA, specializing in multicultural literature and critical whiteness studies. He has co-edited _Critical Essays on Don DeLillo_ (2000) and _Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise_ (2006) and his recent publications address the work of Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien and Walter Dean Myers, as well as systemic racism in the criminal justice system and racialized social media slacktivism.