About James Mumford

JJames Mumford is a British author. He currently lives in London, but has spent many years in America – most recently, Charlottesville, Virginia.

His book, Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.

Mumford has written on a range of subjects – ethical, political, literary – for a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic. They include: The Times, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The Atlantic, The Daily Telegraph, Plough Quarterly, UnHerd, Standpoint, The American Conservative, First Things and The Hedgehog Review.

From 2013 to 2017 Mumford worked and taught at the University of Virginia (UVa)’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, where he remains a Senior Fellow. He was an undergraduate at Oxford University, a Henry Fellow at Yale University and received his DPhil (PhD) back at Oxford in 2011.