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David Kelman, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of English

Teaching interests: 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, 20th-century American literature, detective fiction, science fiction, literary theory, comparative literature.

Research interests:20th-century Latin American literature, 20th-century American literature, political fictions and conspiracy narratives, literary theory, theories of Walter Benjamin, theory and history of comparative literature.

Brief biography: I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University in 2007. I have published articles in CR: New Centennial Review (“The Theme of the Traitor: Disinheritance in Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration") and Comparative Literature (“The Afterlife of Storytelling: Julio Cortázar’s Reading of Walter Benjamin and Edgar Allan Poe”). I have also published essays on literary theory in New Vico Studies and Actualities of Aura: Twelve Studies of Walter Benjamin. I am currently writing a book that compares conspiracy narratives from Latin America and the United States.  Before coming to Cal State Fullerton, I taught in the Spanish department at Indiana University, Bloomington.