Darrin M. McMahon

“The Genius Can Make No Mistake: Portals of Discovery and the Birth and Death of Genius”

Co-Editor Modern Intellectual History
Mary Brinsmead Wheelock
Professor of History
Dartmouth College

Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor at Dartmouth College and Co-Editor of Modern Intellectual History.  He is the author or editor of seven books, including Enemies of the Enlightenment (Oxford); Happiness: A History (Atlantic), Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic), and ed. with Samuel Moyn of Rethinking Modern Intellectual History (Oxford).  A frequent contributor to such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and the Literary Review, he is currently writing a history of notions of equality, under contract with Basic Books, and is working on a study of lighting and illumination in the age of Enlightenment.