Pamela Bedore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in American literature and popular culture. She is author of Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature (The Great Courses, 2017), Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction (Palgrave, 2013), and several articles on detective fiction, science fiction, and writing program administration. She is the book review editor for Clues: A Journal of Detection, and is currently working on a new book: Canadian Crime Fiction (Routledge).