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".