Education

Ph.D., German Studies, University of California, Berkeley, May 2006
B.A., Political Philosophy and German Davidson College, Spring 1999

Publications

Books

After the University: On the Past and Future of Intellectual Work (under contract, Johns Hopkins University Press).

Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. With Paul Reitter (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures. Edited with Paul Reitter (New York Review Books Classics, 2020).

Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation. With the Multigraph Collective (University of Chicago Press, 2018).

The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook. Edited with Louis Menand and Paul Reitter (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).

Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions. Edited with Paul Reitter (New York Review Books Classics, 2015).

Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom (Penn State University Press, 2010).

Articles

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