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David Wittenberg

David Wittenberg
Professor
Office:
472 EPB
Phone:
319-335-0465
Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests

Literary Criticism & Theory, Architecture, Narrative Theory, 19th-Century U.S. Literatures, Visual Culture

David Wittenberg teaches in English, Comparative Literature, and Cinematic Arts. He is the author of 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). His research and teaching interests include 19th- through 21st-century literary theory and philosophy, American literature, architectural design and theory, and popular culture studies. His current research project is a book about the meaning of very large objects, tentatively entitled Big Culture: Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude.

 Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson          time travel          asfd