Avram Alpert: podcast appearances and interviews

Avram Alpert is an academic and writer who teaches writing and comparative literature at Princeton University. He co-directs the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program alongside Meleko Mokgosi and Anthea Behm. Alpert has authored three books: Global Origins of the Modern Self from Montaigne to Suzuki, published by SUNY Press in 2019; A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well without Perfection, published by Columbia University Press in 2021; and The Good-Enough Life, published by Princeton University Press in 2022. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, as well as in journals including Aeon and Dissent. Alpert holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been recognized through fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, The New Institute, and the Mellon Foundation. He is also a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.