Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. From 2010 to 2017, he served as the director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of ten books, including?What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and ?Bias? in Higher Education?and?Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child.?He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Janet Lyon, and their son, Jamie Bérubé.