David Thorburn received his A.B. degree from Princeton, his M.A. and
Ph.D. from Stanford and taught in the English Department at Yale for ten
years before joining the MIT Literature
faculty in 1976. He is the author of Conrad's Romanticism and many
essays and reviews on literary, cultural and media topics. He has edited
collections of essays on romanticism and on John Updike as well as a widely
used anthology of fiction, Initiation. His course on American television
was one of the first in the country to examine the medium in a humanistic
context. Prof. Thorburn was the founder and for twelve years the Director
of the Film and Media Studies
Program and is a former Director of the Cultural Studies Project.
He is currently the director of the MIT
Communications Forum which sponsors along with the Program
in Comparative Media Studies a series of lectures, forums and Web-based
activities comparing our current experience of changing media with earlier
periods of cultural and technological transformation. In 2002, Prof. Thorburn
was named a MacVicar
Faculty Fellow in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate
education.
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