David Wittenberg

Professor
Biography

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.

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472 English-Philosophy Building (EPB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States