Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein is Emeritus Professor of English, Emory University, and editor of First Things. Bauerlein earned his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. For two years (2003-05) he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008), and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults (2022). His essays have appeared in PMLA, Partisan Review, Philosophy and Literature, Wilson Quarterly, Commentary, and New Criterion, and his commentaries and reviews in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, The Guardian, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other national periodicals.