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MARC MANGANARO is an American literary critic, cultural critic, and university administrator. His publications include Modernist Anthropology (Princeton University Press, 1990), which he edited and introduced; Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority (Yale University Press,1992); and Culture, 1922: The Emergence of a Concept (Princeton University Press, 2002). He is recognized for his interdisciplinary study of literature, literary criticism, anthropology, myth criticism, and folklore, publishing on figures such as T. S. Eliot, James Frazer, James Joyce, Zora Neale Hurston, Bronislaw Malinowski, Northrop Frye, and Joseph Campbell. He is a past recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities award.

Manganaro has served as an English professor at several institutions, including the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Gonzaga University, and Loyola University-New Orleans. From 2005 to 2007 he was the Dean of Academic Affairs at Douglass College (Rutgers), from 2007 to 2012 he served as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University, and from 2012 to 2017 he served a Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Loyola New Orleans. Since 2017 he has served as an interim Provost and Dean at several institutions through the Registry for Interim Placements.

Manganaro is also a poet and previously served as Poetry Editor and Editor in Chief of Carolina Quarterly.

Manganaro was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, receiving his BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (1977),an MA in English from San Francisco State University (1979), and a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985).

Manganaro currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana.