Martha Bayles
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Martha Bayles (born 1948) is an American critic, author, and college professor. Her work focuses on the arts, popular media, cultural policy, and U.S. public diplomacy. She has written for publications such as the
Wall Street Journal, the
Boston Globe, the
Claremont Review of Books, and the
Weekly Standard. Bayles' published books include ''Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music'' in 1994, and ''Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad'' in 2014. She has formerly taught at
Harvard University and
Claremont McKenna College, and is currently a professor of humanities at
Boston College.
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