David Shumway Bio

Shumway's research and teaching focus on American culture and cultural theory. His special interests in American culture include film, popular music, and late 19th and early 20th-century literature. His theoretical interests concern the historical and institutional production of knowledge. He is the author of Michel Foucault (1989), Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (1994), and Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003). He has also co-edited Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity, Making and Selling Culture, and Disciplining English. He is currently working on Classic Rockers: The Cultural Significance of the Stars and on a study of film director John Sayles.

	David Shumway, Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Humanities Center
	Shumway's research and teaching focus on American culture and cultural theory. His special interests in American culture include film, popular music, and late 19th and early 20th-century literature. His theoretical interests concern the historical and institutional production of knowledge. He is the author of Michel Foucault (1989), Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (1994), and Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003). He has also co-edited Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity, Making and Selling Culture, and Disciplining English. He is currently working on Classic Rockers: The Cultural Significance of the Stars and on a study of film director John Sayles.