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DAVID ALWORTH

David Alworth

Visiting Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2012
Media studies; digital humanities; design; American literature and culture; critical theory

  • Biography

    BIOGRAPHY


    David Alworth is is the author of Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form (Princeton UP, 2016), which won the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association, and The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature (with Peter Mendelsund, Ten Speed/Crown/Penguin Random House, Fall 2020). He is the editor of the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of The Great Gatsby, and his essays have appeared in venues ranging from Public Books and The Los Angeles Review of Books to New Literary History and American Literary History