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==Life and career==

 

A 1973 graduate of [[Pomona College]],<ref name="Starr Academy">{{cite news |title=Starr Named to Academy |url=http://magazine.pomona.edu/pomoniana/2020/06/24/starr-named-to-academy/ |access-date=29 August 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |publisher=Pomona College |date=24 June 2020}}</ref> Menand attended [[Harvard Law School]] for one year (1973–1974) before he left to earn [[Master of Arts]] (1975) and [[PhD]] (1980) degrees in English from [[Columbia University]].

He thereafter taught at [[Princeton University]] and held staff positions at ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'' (contributing editor 1994–2001) and ''[[The New Republic]]'' (associate editor 1986–1987). He has contributed to ''[[The New Yorker]]'' since 1991 and remains a staff writer. In 1988 he was appointed a Distinguished Professor of English at the [[Graduate Center of the City University of New York]], and in 1990 he was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]. He left CUNY to accept a post in the English Department at [[Harvard University]] in 2003. He has also taught at Columbia, [[Queens College]], the [[University of Virginia School of Law]].<ref name=bio/>

 

 

He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. In 2018 he was appointed for a 5-year term to the Lee Simpkins Family professorship of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Daniel D'Onofrio |title=Four scholars win Arts and Sciences Professorships |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/4-harvard-scholars-win-arts-and-sciences-professorships/ |publisher=The Harvard Gazette |access-date=18 February 2020 |date=April 3, 2018}}</ref> His principal field of academic interest is 19th and 20th century American cultural history. He teaches literary theory and postwar cultural history at both the graduate and undergraduate level. At Harvard he helped co-found a freshman course with content in literature and philosophy, Humanities 10: An Introductory Humanities Colloquium. He also served as co-chair on the Task Force on General Education at Harvard working on a new general education curriculum.<ref name=bio>[https://www.louismenand.com/ Louis Menand official website]</ref>

 

In consultation with the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]], President Barack Obama awarded him the [[National Humanities Medal]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Jill Radsken |title=Menand wins National Humanities Medal |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/09/menand-wins-national-humanities-medal/ |access-date=18 February 2020 |publisher=The Harvard Gazette |date=September 15, 2016}}</ref>

 

==Bibliography==

*{{cite journal |last=Menand |first=Louis |author-mask=1 |date=March 22, 2021 |title=Change your life : the lessons of the New Left |department=American Chronicles |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=5 |pages=46–53 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-making-of-the-new-left <!--|access-date=2022-10-24-->}}<ref group=lower-alpha>Online version is titled "The making of the New Left".</ref>

*{{cite journal |last=Menand |first=Louis |author-mask=1 |date=September 19, 2022 |title=Disgraced: What Happened to Rudy Giuliani? |department=American Chronicles |journal=The New Yorker |volume=98 |issue=30 |pages=71-75 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/26/was-rudy-giuliani-always-so-awful <!--|access-date=2023-02-20-->}}<ref group=lower-alpha>Online version is titled "Was Rudy Giuliani Always So Awful?".</ref>

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