uli baer

Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about photography, art, literature, and other subjects. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships. He met Caroline in college, and they attended graduate school at Yale together. They share a love of rowing and literature, which occupied much of their time in college and graduate school, and have been friends ever since.

He is the author of What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality in the University (Oxford University Press); Spectral Evidence: The Photography of Trauma (MIT Press); The Dark Interval: Rilke's Letters for the Grieving Heart (New York: Random House and London: Bloomsbury), among other books, and the creator and host of a podcast on big ideas and great books: Think About It. He has published a novel (We Are But a Moment), a collection of short stories (Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai), and other books and numerous essays. As Editorial Director at Warbler Press, he has written new introductions for classic works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (co-written with Carol Gilligan), Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (co-written with Glenn Wallis), Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, and edited a series of original books on things that matter: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson and Wilde on Love, all with Warbler Press.

Uli is a dad, an urban gardener, and practices Shaolin kung fu as a perpetual beginner. He lives in New York City.