Expertise

Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, Martin Heidegger, Roland Barthes, Paul Bowles, Frederic Jameson, Karl Marx, Mumblecore, Documentary Work, Modern Poetry, Georg Lukacs, Postmodernism, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Mo

Biography

David Racker has taught at Temple University for 19 years, the last fourteen in the Intellectual Heritage Program. He has published essays on Roland Barthes, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Paul Bowles. His interests include American expatriate writers and all the arts that get at "human actuality": documentary work, mumblecore movie making, digital storytelling, etc. He’s currently working on a book length study of postmodern subjectivity in two expatriates, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway, and an expatriate of the mind, Wallace Stevens.

Selected Publications

• “The Awareness of Domination in the Work of Paul Bowles.” Bowles Notes 1 July 2003
• “Shiva Naipaul: Fragmented Traces as Material for Fictive Stereotypes.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 40 (1994): 50-55.
• “Self-deception: Art as a Symbol for Experience in The Ambassadors and ‘Un amour de Swann.’” West Virginia University Philological Papers 39 (1993): 62-67.
• “Myth and the Writerly in Roland Barthes.”  Proceedings of the 1992 Louisiana Philological Association (1993): 127-132.

Courses Taught

• Modern Poetry
• Contemporary Literature
• The Modern Novel
• Modern World Fiction
• Survey of American Literature from 1865-Present
• Introduction to Literature
• Introduction to Drama
• Short Story
• Intellectual Heritage 851/951
• Intellectual Heritage 852/952
• Writing for Business and Industry
• College Composition
• College Composition for non-native speakers of English
• Introduction to Academic Discourse (basic writing)