"Mark Bauerlein earned his PhD in English at UCLA in 1988 and has been on the faculty at Emory University since 1989.  From 2003 to 2005, he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is currently Senior Editor of First Things magazine.  He has written and edited several books, including, Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001), and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008).  His scholarly essays have appeared in PMLA, Yale Review, Partisan Review, Philosophy and Literature, and Wilson Quarterly, and his commentaries and reviews have appeared in New York Times, Reason Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Weekly Standard, Chronicleof Higher Education, and many other major newspapers and magazines."