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James Mumford lives in London but is a Senior Fellow at The University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He’s the author of Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Mumford has written on a range of subjects – ethical, political, literary – for a variety of publications both sides of the Atlantic. They include: The Guardian, The New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The Atlantic, The Daily Telegraph, UnHerd, Standpoint, The American Conservative and The Hedgehog Review.
From 2013 to 2017 Mumford worked and taught at the University of Virginia (UVa), where he remains a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He was an undergraduate at Oxford University, a Henry Fellow at Yale University and received his DPhil (PhD) back at Oxford in 2011.