Mark Edmundson

Mark Edmundson is a professor at the University of Virginia and has been awarded for his work in the field of literary and cultural criticism. He is the author of the books: "Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson and Sigmund Freud," Princeton, 1990; "Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defense of Poetry," Cambridge, 1995; "Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sado-Masochism, and the Culture of Gothic," Harvard, 1997; "Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference," 2002; "Why Read?," 2004; "The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psycho-analysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism," 2007; "Kings of Rock n' Roll," 2009. His full profile can be found on the University of Virginia's website: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/edmundson_mark.shtml