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Mark Bauerlein

Visiting Professor
Mark Bauerlein

Bio

Mark Bauerlein is Contributing Editor at First Things, trustee at New College of Florida, and Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University, where he taught after earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1988. 

For two years, he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Whitman and the American Idiom, Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults. 

His commentaries and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Philosophy and Literature, Yale Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, TLS, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Weekly Standard, Boston Globe, New York Post, and other national periodicals. He has appeared on CNN, BBC World Today, Fox and Friends, ABC's 20/20, Nightline, PBS Frontline, CBS News, All Things Considered, and other national venues.

Areas of Expertise

  • American literature
  • Pragmatism
  • Literary theory
  • Youth and technology