Cinema & Comparative Literature
David Wittenberg |
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| Associate Professor of English; Cinema and Comparative Literature | ||
| Ph.D. Johns Hopkins | ||
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| Background: | ||
David Wittenberg has taught in the Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature and the English Department since 1998. He is the author of Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (Stanford Press, 2001), a book about how philosophical canons are constructed through the revisionist practices of philosophers and their critics. His research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century literary theory and philosophy, American literature, architectural design and theory, and philosophy of time. He is simultaneously working on two new book projects. The first is about the history and theory of time travel narratives, tentatively entitled Time Travel: The Philosophy of Popular Culture; it analyzes works from modernist and postmodernist literature, popular fiction and film, physics, historiography, and psychology. The second book project, cautiously entitled Big Culture, is a critique of very large objects and images in contemporary culture and space, as well as a theory of the aesthetics of quantity; it explores such sizeable phenomena as skyscrapers, Hollywood films, philosophical systems, disasters, pop stars, military machines, and Las Vegas hotels. |
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| Research Areas: | ||
Continental philosophy & literary theory; 19th-21st century American literature; architectural theory & design; narrative theory |
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