David Shumway
Professor of English
Bio
I research and teach in American culture and cultural theory. My special interests in American culture include film, popular music, and late nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. My theoretical interests concern the historical and institutional production of knowledge, cultural politics, and theories of identity. I am the author of Michel Foucault, Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline, Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis, and John Sayles, which will be published in March 2012. I have co-edited Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity, Making and Selling Culture, and Disciplining English. I have recently competed Faces of the Rock Star: Stardom and Cultural Change. My next project will concern realism across media in the U. S. during the 20th century.
Education
- Ph.D., Indiana University
- MA, Indiana University
- BA, New College of Hofstra University
Selected Publications
"Woody Allen: the Charlie Chaplin of the New Hollywood." The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy. Ed. Andrew Horton & Joanna Rapf Malden. MA: Blackwell, 2012.
"French Theory, English Departments, and Cultural Studies in the U.S.," Etudes culturelles: anthropologie culturelle et comparatisme. Vol.1. Ed. Antonio Dominguez Leiva, Didier Souiller, Sébastien Hubier, Philippe Chardi. Neuilly-lès-Dijon: Éditions du Murmure, 2010.
"Revisiting Realisms." Special issue, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 41.2 (Fall 2008).
"Bob Dylan as a Cultural Icon." The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 110-121.
"Screwball Comedies: Constructing Romance, Mystifying Marriage." The Film Genre Reader, 3rd ed. Ed. Barry Grant. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, 396-416. Rpt. from Cinema Journal.
"The Star System in Literary Studies." PMLA 112 (January 1997): 85-100.