Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th-century American literature.
[1] He is the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University.
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.