Margaret Kolb joins the Fung Institute with a PhD in English Literature from UC Berkeley and a BA in abstract mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before completing her PhD, she worked as a quantitative analyst in economic research at Bank of America. Find her writing on literary history in Victorian Studies, Configurations, and The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics; her book reviews appear in MAKE Magazine. She has also served as a Lecturer in English at UC Berkeley, an instructor at San Quentin Prison, and founded two short story groups, one in Abu Dhabi and the other in San Francisco.