William Warner, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, works in the following fields: the Enlightenment; the novel; the history of media culture from the eighteenth century to the present; and free speech and censorship. His most recent book is Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading, 1684-1750. He is developing web sites on censorship, free speech and media, as well as studying the motif of "media determinism" over the long history of media. He is teaching a Transcriptions courses on "Cyborg Genealogies: the Gothic."