Professor John Modern
Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA, United States
Biography
Biographical information is not available at present.
Biography
John Modern is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Modern teaches classes on religious history, literature, science, technology, and aesthetics. Former Editor-at-Large for The Immanent Frame, he co-curated Frequencies and co-edits Class 200: New Studies in Religion (both with Kathryn Lofton). Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press) and The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (University of Illinois Press). Neuromatic; or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain has just been published by the University of Chicago Press. Modern is currently working on The Book of Akron, a project that explores the end of the world through the history of rubber. Modern is also the producer of a multi-media project called Machines in Between, funded by the Henry Luce Foundation Modern’s previous work has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council. He is a former member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Honoraria Titles
Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities
Major Prizes
International Society of Science and Religion: 2022 ISSR Best Book Award (Neuromatic)
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship (2018-19). Residency at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. University of Pennsylvania
Member. Institute for Advanced Study. School of Social Sciences. Princeton, NJ. (2017-18)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library. (2010)
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
History of Religion, History of Science
Science & Technology Interests
Neuroscience
Website
Publications
Neuromatic, or; a Particular History of Religion and the Brain
University of Chicago Press 2021
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html
Secularism in Antebellum America: w/ Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussions of Mass Media, Moby-Dick, Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology
University of Chicago Press 2011
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo12182551.html
