Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is an English professor at Emory University and the author of 2008 book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30).^[1][2] Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English from UCLA in 1988 and has taught at Emory since 1989. Between 2003 and 2005, Bauerlein worked at the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis.^[3][4] While there, Bauerlein contributed to an NEA study, "Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America."^[5]

Bauerlein explains how his experience as a teacher led to his writing of The Dumbest Generation:

“Because in my limited experience as a teacher, I’ve noticed in the last 10 years that students are no less intelligent, no less ambitious but there are two big differences: Reading habits have slipped, along with general knowledge. You can quote me on this: You guys don’t know anything.”^[6]

The Dumbest Generation has generated controversy among teachers, academics, and young people, sparking an ongoing debate about whether today's youth really are "bibliophobes" who exhibit a "brazen disregard for books and reading,"^[7] as Bauerlein characterizes them.

List of works

• Whitman and the American Idiom (1991, Louisiana State University Press)
• Literary Criticism, An Autopsy (1997, University of Pennsylvania Press)
• Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (1997, Duke University Press)
• Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (2001, Encounter Books)
• The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) (2008, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin)^[8]

See also

• Aliteracy

References

1. ^ Bauerlein, Mark (2008). The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). New York: Penguin.
2. ^ Library of Congress listing. Retrieved April 26, 2010
3. ^ http://www.english.emory.edu/people/faculty/bauerlein.htm
4. ^ National Review Online bio. Retrieved April 26, 2010
5. ^ http://www.nea.gov/pub/ReadingAtRisk.pdf
6. ^ http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=25177
7. ^ LA Times review including quote. Retrieved April 26, 2010
8. ^ Library of Congress listing. Retrieved April 26, 2010

External links

• Official website
• Bauerlein's faculty page at Emory University
• Transcript of a conversation with readers of the Boston Globe, May 14, 2008
• Posts by Mark Bauerlein at The Valve, A Literary Organ (dated 2005-2006)
• Video of a CNN debate between Bauerlein and recent Emory Goizueta Business School Graduate David Feldman, Sept. 28, 2008

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