James Geary

James Geary is a lecturer in the Journalism department at Boston University. He has also taught at Bennington College, Brandeis University, the Harvard Kennedy School, Tufts University and the Harvard Extension School. From 2013 to 2023, he was the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and editor of Nieman Reports. He is the former editor of the European edition of Time magazine. He is the author of five nonfiction books: “Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It”; “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World”; “Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists”; the New York Times bestseller “The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism”; and “The Body Electric: An Anatomy of The New Bionic Senses.”