Eric G Wilson Ph.D.

Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English at Wake Forest University and author of Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, which explores the therapeutic values of transforming your life into art. In his earlier book Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away, Wilson examined the strange virtues of morbid curiosity. He has also published Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, a contemplation on the redemptive virtues of melancholy.

His most recent project, a collaboration with filmmaker Joel Tauber, is a podcast about the psychology of masculinity. It is called BELT: A 2-Man Memoir (https://belt.live), and it is available on Apple Podcasts, Sticher, TuneIn, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

He has published other books on the psychological aspects of literature, philosophy, or film, including Polaris Ghost: Stories, How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keats, The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depresssion and Grace, My Business Is To Create: Blake's Infinite Writing, The Strange World of David Lynch, Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film, and The Melancholy Android: A Psychology of Sacred Machines.