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| Mark Bauerlein | |
|---|---|
 Bauerlein in 2011 | |
| Born | 1959 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Employer | Emory University |
Mark Weightman Bauerlein (born 1959) is an English professor emeritus at Emory University and a senior editor of First Things. He is also a visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah and as a trustee of New College of Florida.
Early life and education
Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English from UCLA in 1988, having completed a thesis on poet Walt Whitman under the supervision of Joseph N. Riddel.
Career
Bauerlein is a Professor Emeritus of English who taught at Emory University from 1989 to 2018, with a brief break between 2003 and 2005 to work at the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as the director of the Office of Research and Analysis. While there, Bauerlein contributed to an NEA study, "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America". In 2023, he was appointed by Ron DeSantis to the board of trustees of New College of Florida during a controversial purge at the college of the state university system.
Bauerlein strongly opposes implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in colleges.
Published works
Bauerlein's books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997) and The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (1997). He is also the author of the 2008 book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30), which won the Nautilus Award.
Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular publications such as The Federalist, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and The Times Literary Supplement.
In 2022, Bauerlein published a sequel to The Dumbest Generation titled The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth To Dangerous Adults.
Personal life
In 2012, Bauerlein announced his conversion to Catholicism. He has described himself as an "educational conservative,” while he socially and politically identifies as being "pretty ... libertarian", according to an interview conducted by Reason magazine. He endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
List of works
- Bauerlein, Mark (1991), Whitman and the American Idiom, Louisiana State University Press.
- ——— (1997), Literary Criticism, An Autopsy, University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ——— (1997), Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, Duke University Press.
- ——— (2001), Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906, Encounter Books.
- ——— (2008), The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30), New York, NY, USA: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
- ——— (2022), The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults, New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster
See also
References
- "Featured Authors". 21 September 2023.
- "About Ralston College". Ralston College. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Mark Bauerlein, Professor". english.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26.
- Zhu, Ashley (2023-01-19). "DeSantis appoints former Emory professor to New College of Florida Board of Trustees". The Emory Wheel. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- "Bauerlein", Faculty, Emory, archived from the original on 2009-12-08, retrieved 2009-12-12.
- Biography (online ed.), National Review, archived from the original on February 23, 2009, retrieved April 26, 2010
- Reading at Risk (PDF), NEA, archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-20.
- Zhu, Ashley (2023-01-19). "DeSantis appoints former Emory professor to New College of Florida Board of Trustees". The Emory Wheel. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- Bauerlein, Mark (May 2012) My failed atheism, First Things Journal Retrieved October 23, 2014
- Hayes, Dan (21 July 2008). "Mark Bauerlein: Why Young Americans Are the Dumbest Generation". Reason. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- "Scholars and Writers for America". scholarsandwritersforamerica.org. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- Meyer, Sheree L. (1999). "Review: Representing the End(s) of English (Or Not)?". College Literature. 26 (3): 243–248.
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Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- American academics of English literature
- American male non-fiction writers
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism
- American Roman Catholic writers
- Emory University faculty
- National Endowment for the Arts
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni