This week I submitted my manuscript In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Modern Narratives of Invisibility to LMU’s Faculty of Languages and Literatures as my Habilitationsschrift. The manuscript offers readings of authors from eighteenth-century novelists and poets Eliza Haywood, Susanna Rowson, and Anna Letitia Barbauld to nineteenth-century writers John Keats, James Forbes Dalton, Fitz-James O’Brien, and H.G. Wells, to twentieth-century and twenty-first-century authors G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, China Miéville, and Jennifer Egan. In German-language academia, the Habilitationsschrift is the major requirement of qualifying for the postdoctoral degree of Dr. habil., which is, in turn, the requirement for applying to the positions of associate and full professor in Germany.