David Blake
Associate Professor
David Blake received a B.A. from Colgate University and a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses on 19th- and 20th- century American literature, modern poetry, and the relations between literature and politics. He is an active participant in the US Studies minor and is co-director, with Professor Michael Robertson, of "Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Symposium." Blake has recently completed the forthcoming book Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity and is currently writing about democracy and fame in the 21st century.
Selected Publications
- "Reading Whitman, Growing Up Rock 'n' Roll," Virginia Quarterly Review, (81:2) Spring 2005.
- "'The Man That Was Used Up': Edgar Allan Poe and the Ends of Captivity," Nineteenth-Century Literature, (57.3) December 2002.
- " Hollywood, Impersonation, and Presidential Celebrity in the 1990s" in Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History. Eds. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. ( Lexington : UP of Kentucky, 2003).
- "A Tell-Tale Heart," Epoch, (50:1) 2001.
- "Public Dreams: Berryman, Celebrity, and the Culture of Confession," American Literary History, (13:4) Winter 2001.
- "Exile and the Republic: Thomas McGrath and the Legacy of Jefferson 's America, " Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies, 1998.
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