David Wittenberg
Office Hours
TBD for Fall 2025
Get to know David
David Wittenberg teaches in the departments of English and Cinematic Arts. He is the author of Big Culture: Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (Stanford University Press, 2001). He also co-edited, with Michael Tavel Clarke, the collection Scale in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).
His chief research and teaching interests are in 19th- through 21st-century literary theory and philosophy, American literature, architectural design and theory, and popular culture studies. His ongoing research projects include a pair of companion monographs on contemporary criticism and politics, tentatively entitled Against Dialectic and Anatomy of Irony, as well as articles on cosmology, narratology, monadology, and maybe poker.
Research interests
- Literary Criticism & Theory
- Architecture, Narrative Theory
- 19th-Century U.S. Literatures
- Visual Culture
- Science & the Arts
