David Field

Ph.D. (University of Virginia)
Professor
325 Asbury Hall
Phone: (765) 658-4686
E-mail: dfield@depauw.edu

David Field  is Professor of English at DePauw, where he has taught for seventeen years. Originally from Monroe, Georgia (forty miles east of Atlanta), he attended Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia. At DePauw, he has taught many different courses, including Milton, Modern Continental Literature, The Novel, Introduction to Fiction, Contemporary American Literature and seminars on Nabokov and Beauty. With the help of Carl Singer, the Director of Academic Computing, he has completed work on a multimedia program allows him to integrate paintings and music into his novel class. Students can also use the program outside of class to explore connections between the novels and other aspects of intellectual history.

He has published articles focusing on the works of Vladimir Nabokov and others dealing with the effect of romantic novels on contemporary American literature. He has also published thirteen articles on such topics as the National Radio Astronomy Laboratory, bird migration, and the geological history of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He uses this background as a nonfiction writer when he teaches first-year English composition and Creative Writing: Non-Fiction. He won the Battey Award for Distinguished teaching in 1995 and has been recognized several times as one of DePauw’s most outstanding teachers by Mortar Board and other student organizations.

Fall 2007:

• ENG 197e: FYS: Beauty

Spring 2008:

• On leave