John Marx

John Marx is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, an American Council on Education Fellow for 2018-19, and Associate Editor for Novel: A Forum on Fiction. He is the author of Media U: How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education, co-written with Mark Garrett Cooper (Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina). They blog about higher education at http://coopermarx.net/ (and at their earlier work in progress blog http://humanitiesafterhollywood.org). Marx is writing a book with the working title “Mega: How Mass Media Make Contemporary Cities” and is the author of Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 (Cambridge UP, 2012) and The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire (Cambridge UP, 2005, 2009).