Bio

Peter Mann is a writer and historian of Modern Europe. He is the author of the novel THE TORQUED MAN (Harper, 2022), about the double life of an Irish spy in wartime Berlin, and named one of The New Yorker's best books of 2022. His second novel PACIFICA is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2025.

Mann is interested in late 19th- and early 20th-century literature and history, especially where they intersect with politics and the absurd, though he happily teaches across a broad swath, from Gilgamesh and the Greeks to Cabeza de Vaca and Clarice Lispector. He is also a cartoonist, whose syndicated online weekly feature "The Quixote Syndrome" ran on GoComics from 2014-2021. Currently, he puts out comics on his Substack newsletter "Free Spirits Run Riot."

Mann teaches history and literature in the first-year Foundations sequence of the Stanford's Masters of Liberal Arts program as well as courses in Stanford Continuing Studies. Recent CSP courses include "Modernism in the Metropolis: Artist and Intellectuals in the European City, 1848-1945" and "Modernity and its Discontents: European Thought and Culture from Fin de Siècle to World War II."

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Master of Liberal Arts Program

Professional Education

  • BA, Wesleyan University, History (2003)
  • PhD, Stanford University, History and Humanities (2012)

Contact

  • Academic
    pmann@stanford.edu
    University - Academic staff Department: Master of Liberal Arts Program Position: Lecturer

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2087

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