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Mark Bauerlein | |
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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 . [1] He is also a visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah [2] and as a trustee of New College of Florida.
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. [3]
Bauerlein is a Professor Emeritus of English who taught at Emory University from 1989 to 2018, [4] 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. [5] [6] While there, Bauerlein contributed to an NEA study, "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America". [7] 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. [8]
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),[ citation needed ] which won the Nautilus Award.[ citation needed ]
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 . [3]
In 2022, Bauerlein published a sequel to The Dumbest Generation titled The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth To Dangerous Adults.[ citation needed ]
In 2012, Bauerlein announced his conversion to Catholicism. [9] 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. [10] He endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. [11]