Devin William Daniels
Academic Departments
Areas of Focus
Twentieth-century American literature, film and media studies, contemporary literature, critical data studies, writing pedagogy.
Biography
Devin William Daniels is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literatures in English at 51¶ÌÊÓƵ, where he teaches courses in literature, film, media studies, literary theory, and writing. His research focuses on the connections between literature, digital technology, and the state, as in his first book, Becoming Data: US Fiction and the Informatic State, which is under peer review at Columbia University Press. He is currently researching the paranoid styles and subjectivities of contemporary American culture, with attention to the novel, fictional and documentary cinema, and born-digital media, from online message boards to podcasts and YouTube. His work is published or forthcoming in Post45, Representations, Mediations, English Studies in Africa, Contemporaries at Post45, and The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Film.