Devika Sharma is associate professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author ofAmerikanske fængselsbilleder: Kunst, kultur og indespærring i samtidens USA[American Prison Imagery: Arts, Culture, and Incarceration in the Contemporary U.S.] (Tiderne Skifter 2011) and the co-editor (with Frederik Tygstrup) ofStructures of Feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture(De Gruyter 2015). Sharma is co-convenor of Interventions, a research network on humanitarian politics and culture and the co-editor of the Nordic journalK&K, having recently edited issues on affectivity, cultural critique, and the politics of guilt and shame in Scandinavia. She is working on a monograph on humanitarian culture and complicity with the working titleThe Predicament of Privilege.