Christine Marks is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Liberal Arts: Health Humanities option at LaGuardia Community College. She received her PhD from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Her monograph I am because you are: Relationality in the Works of Siri Hustvedt was published by Winter (Heidelberg University Press) in March 2014, and she co-edited the volume Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works: Interdisciplinary Essays (with Johanna Hartmann and Hubert Zapf; De Gruyter 2016). Christine has taught courses in composition, cultural studies, American literature, and world literature at LaGuardia, Johannes Gutenberg University, Wagner College, Hunter College, and Columbia University.