Mark Bauerlein, Professor of English at Emory University, will deliver a public lecture “Smart Kids in a Stupid Culture: History, Politics, Literature vs. Twitter, Facebook, iPhone” at 7:30 in Room GO27, Kennedy Auditorium, Science Center, at Hamilton College.

A reception and book-signing at the AHI will precede the lecture at 4:30 pm.  Professor Bauerlein is the author most recently of  The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30) (Tarcher, 2009) and Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (Encounter 2002).