David Witzling, PHD

Education

PHD, Univeristy of California
MA, Univeristy of California
BA, Yale University

Research

I am currently working on a book project on attitudes toward property rights and economic freedom in twentieth-century United States culture and how those attitudes are manifested in literary narrative.

Publications & Professional Activities

• Everybody’s America: Thomas Pynchon, Race, and the Cultures of Postmodernism (Routledge, 2008)

Conference Papers:

• "Exporting 'Harlem:' Baldwin, Baraka/Jones, and the Internationalization of Black Cultural Representation." May 2012, American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
• “Property Nostalgia and the Fear of Global Capitalism in James and Hemingway.” November 2010, MMLA Conference, Chicago, IL.
• “Liberal Desires in Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa.” May 2009, American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
• “Living for the City: Post-integrationist Feeling in James Baldwin’s New York Essays.” March 2008, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA.

Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• American Studies Association
• MELUS

Courses Taught/Teaching

ENGL 110      College Writing
ENGL 150      Roots: Literature
ENGL 253      Masterworks of American Literature
ENGL 305      African-American Literature
ENGL 338      Studies in Twentieth-and Twenty-first-Century American Literature
ENGL 348      Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 372      American Literature to 1914
ENGL 380      Ethnic American Literature
ENGL 399      Independent Study
LLRN 204      Roots: Literature