Christopher Lane, Ph.D.

Christopher Lane, Ph.D., teaches literature and intellectual history at Northwestern University and is a recent Guggenheim fellow. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Chronicle Review, and many other newspapers and periodicals. He is the author of several books including, most recently, The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011; paperback 2012). His other books include Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007; 2008; 2011), winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France), translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean, with translations in Danish and Turkish forthcoming. He also writes for the Huffington Post.