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IMG_0613John Modern is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. Modern teaches classes on American 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 producing a multi-media project on religion called Machines in Between (2021-23), funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster. 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.

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