Mark Edmundson is an American author and professor of English at the University of Virginia. He received a B.A from Bennington College in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1985. Edmundson specializes in Romanticism, Poetry, and 19th-Century English and American Literature. He is the author of sixteen books, and his essays appear in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times Magazine. Edmundson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a National Endowment for the Humanities/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings
1920
ISBN 9780141931661
The death of Sigmund Freud
2007
ISBN 9781582345376
Literature against philosophy, Plato to Derrida
1995
ISBN 9780521485326
Why read?
2004
ISBN 9781582344256
Self and soul
2015
ISBN 9780674088207
Towards Reading Freud
1990
ISBN 9780226184616
Wild Orchids and trotsky
1993
ISBN 9780140170788
Nightmare on Main Street
1997
ISBN 9780674874848
Teacher
2002
ISBN 9780375708541
The fine wisdom and perfect teachings of the kings of rock and roll
2010
ISBN 9780061713477
Why teach?
2013
ISBN 9781620401071
Why write?
2016
ISBN 9781632863058
Song of Ourselves
2021
ISBN 9780674258983