I'm the Communications Manager for the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and a Resident Fellow at Stanford. I’m also a former Lecturer for the English Department, Continuing Studies, and Structured Liberal Education (SLE). I graduated from the PhD program in English at Harvard in 2019.

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

Recently, I’ve taught classes on modern odysseys and literature of the world wars. 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 watch full lectures and short teaching clips on my YouTube channel.

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

I host the HCBSS Podcast, where I interview scholars in Buddhist Studies. I’ve also been interviewed myself in The New York Times and on NBC Bay Area.

Contact: mosgood [at] stanford.edu

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