Mark Weightman Bauerlein (born 1959) is an English professor emeritus at Emory University and a senior editor of First Things.

Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English from UCLA in 1988, having completed a thesis on poet Walt Whitman under the supervision of Joseph N.

[3] Bauerlein is a Professor Emeritus of English who taught at Emory University from 1989 to 2018,[4] with a brief break between 2003 and 2005 to work at the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as the director of the Office of Research and Analysis.

He is also the author of the 2008 book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30),[citation needed] which won the Nautilus Award.

[citation needed] Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular publications such as The Federalist, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard and The Times Literary Supplement.