Mark Bauerlein

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]

• Bauerlein, Mark (1991), Whitman and the American Idiom, Louisiana State University Press .
• ——— (1997), Literary Criticism, An Autopsy, University of Pennsylvania Press .^[12]
• ——— (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

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