Mark Weightman Bauerlein (born 1959) is an English professor emeritus at Emory University and senior editor of ''First Things'' journal. He also serves as a visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah.

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 has taught at Emory University since 1989. Between 2003 and 2005, he worked 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".

Work

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. Bauerlein explains how his experience as a teacher led to his writing of ''The Dumbest Generation'': Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as ''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.Bauerlein, Mark (May 2012
My failed atheism
First Things Journal Retrieved October 23, 2014 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), ''Reason'' magazine. He endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Bauerlein has an Twin#Monozygotic .28.22identical.22.29 twins, identical twin brother.

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* . * . * * * . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauerlein, Mark 1959 births Living people American academics of English literature American male non-fiction writers Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism American Roman Catholics Emory University faculty National Endowment for the Arts University of California, Los Angeles alumni