Faculty
David Schmid
Associate Professor
Office: 401 Clemens
Phone number: 645-0679
E-mail address: schmid@buffalo.edu
Interests:
Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, 20th Century and Contemporary British and American Fiction
Courses taught:
Graduate:
- Introduction to Scholarly Methods
- The 20th Century American Novel
- Crime Fiction
- Monstrous Cultural Studies
- Multicultural Britain
- Celebrity Culture
- Cultural Studies: The British Tradition
- A History of Cultural Studies
- Readings in American Cultural Studies
- Transnational Cultural Studies
Undergraduate:
- Short Fiction
- An Introduction to the Mystery
- Criticism
- The Modern British Novel
- The Contemporary British Novel
- Multicultural Britain
- Beat Culture
- American Thought and Culture in the 1960s
- Popular Culture
- American Pluralism: The American Dream Revisited
- American Pluralism: The City in 20th Century American Literature
Work in progress:
- Book: Murder Culture
- Book: Mean Streets and More: Space in Crime Fiction.
Selected publications:
Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (University of Chicago Press 2005).
"Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction." A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 1900-1950. Ed. Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 94-112.
“The Kindest Cut of All: Adapting Thomas Harris’s Hannibal.” Literature/Film Quarterly 35.1 (2007): 389-395.
“Serial Killing in America After 9/11.” Journal of American Culture 28.1 (2005): 61-69.
“Murderabilia: Consuming Fame.” M/C Journal 7.5 (2004). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0411/10-schmid.php.
"A Different Shade of Noir: Masculinity in the Novels of David Goodis." Para•Doxa 16 (2001): 153-176.
"Chester Himes and the Institutionalization of Multicultural Detective Fiction." Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder
from the "Other" Side. Ed. Adrienne Gosselin. New York: Garland, 1998. 283-302.
"Imagining Safe Urban Space: The Contribution of Detective Fiction to Radical Geography." Antipode 27.3 (1995): 242-69.
