Mark McGurl
Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th-century American literature. He is the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University.Background
McGurl received his B.A. from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University. He has also worked as a journalist for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. In 2011, McGurl received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing.Publications
Books
- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing..
- The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James..
- ","New Literary History," Fall 2010.
- "." Official Website: The Program Era Reviews, October 1/October 10, 2010.
- "," n+1 no.9 spring 2010.
- "" American Literary History, Summer 2007.
- "" Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005.
- "" Critical Inquiry, Fall 2005.
- "" Representations 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83.
- "." American Literary History, 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717.
- "." Critical Inquiry, Spring 1996.
