Paul Cantor is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He has written on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare, Romanticism, Austrian economics, and contemporary popular culture. His books include Literature and the Economics of Liberty (co-editor, 2009),Shakespeare's Rome (1976), Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism (1984), Shakespeare: Hamlet (1989), and Gilligan Unbound(2001). His most recent book is The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV (2012). Professor Cantor earned his A.B., and Ph.D from Harvard University