Mark Danner teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is Professor of English, Journalism, and Politics, and at Bard College, in New York's Hudson Valley, where he is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and Humanities. Danner teaches politics, foreign and domestic; international affairs; and literature. He has taught courses that take up political violence and foreign policy crisis; terrorism, torture and the war in Iraq; and Don Juan, Faust and Dostoevsky, among many others.