Louis Menand

Principal field of academic interest is nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural history. Widely known not only for his scholarly work but also for his many contributions to intellectual discourse in popular reviews and journals of opinion. Major works include: The Marketplace of Ideas (2010); American Studies (2002); The Metaphysical Club, (2001); The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7: Modernism and the New Criticism, co-ed. (2000); The Future of Academic Freedom, ed. (1997); Pragmatism: A Reader, ed. (1996); Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context (1987). The Metaphysical Club received the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction. He was Associate Editor of The New Republic (1986-1987), Literary Editor at The New Yorker (1993-1994), and Contributing Editor of The New York Review of Books (1994-2001). He contributes regularly to The New Yorker, for which he is a staff writer. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Queens College, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Virginia School of Law.