I'm the Communications Manager for the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford. I’m also a Lecturer for the English Department and Continuing Studies, after teaching for Structured Liberal Education (SLE) for five years. I graduated from the PhD program in English at Harvard in 2019 and now live in San Francisco.

My current book project is about the Cultural Cold War, international sport, and the Mexico City Olympics of 1968. That research is also the basis for an online digital-humanities project (in development).

I currently teach classes on modern odysseys and modernism (for Stanford English) and literature of the world wars (for Continuing Studies). I've also run a few World Literature classes online for edX, and I’ve created an educational board game about modernist art and literature called Manifesto!

You can read more about my research in Slate, The Washington Post, Public Books, and n+1, about my teaching in the Harvard Crimson and on Entitled Opinions, or about my Humanities-advocacy for undergraduates in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

I’ve also been interviewed recently in The New York Times and on NBC Bay Area.

Contact: mosgood [at] stanford.edu

Office Hours (Fall):
Thursdays 1-2:45 (FloMo Dining courtyard)

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