Mark Oppenheimer
Lecturer in English
35 Bdwy M205 | 432-9650 | mark.oppenheimer@yale.edu
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University, 2003
B.A., History, Magna Cum Laude, Yale College, 1996
INTERESTS: The contemporary American essay; American religious history; memoir; popular literary criticism; journalism
I am the coordinator of the Yale Journalism Initiative, but I have had a varied career, having been a newspaper beat reporter for the Hartford Courant, a magazine writer for The New York Times Magazine, an essayist for The American Scholar, Southwest Review, and Yale Review, and an historian of religion. I edit a literary journal called New Haven Review, and I am currently finishing a memoir of my days as a high school and college debater. I'm thinking about future projects including a book about the block I live on and a biography of the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: can be found online at markoppenheimer.com
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: English 120 Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, PolSci265 Classics of Political Journalism
