Douglas Mao, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, teaches in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins. Having received his doctorate from Yale in 1993, he served on the faculties of Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell before coming to Hopkins in 2007. In 2018, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences awarded him the Johns Hopkins Excellence in Teaching prize for graduate teaching and mentoring.
Professor Mao is a specialist in twentieth-century fiction and poetry. His single-authored books are: Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (1998); Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960 (2008); and Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice (2020), all from Princeton University Press. Professor Mao is also the editor of The New Modernist Studies (Cambridge, 2021) and the Longman Cultural Edition of E. M. Forster's Howards End (2009), as well as the co-editor, with Rebecca Walkowitz, of Bad Modernisms (Duke, 2006).
Professor Mao held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and has been president of the Modernist Studies Association. He currently serves as Series Editor of Hopkins Studies in Modernism (from the Johns Hopkins University Press) and on editorial boards of numerous journals in his field.
His next book, titled simply Utopia and co-authored with the Cambridge historian Duncan Bell, is due out from Oxford University Press in the coming year.
