Mark Bauerlein is Professor of English at Emory University. He is also serving as Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997) and Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta (2001). His essays have appeared in Partisan Review, The Wilson Quarterly, The Yale Review, and TLS, and his reviews and commentaries have appeared in Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, Reason Magazine, and Chronicle of Higher Education.