Jonathan D. Fitzgerald is Associate Professor of English at Salem State University. He is the author of How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023) and Not Your Mother's Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better (Bondfire Books, 2013).
His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, The Daily Beast, Religion Dispatches, The Huffington Post, Killing the Buddha, and more.