Photo by Jeff Watts
David Pike
Professor
Department of Literature
- Professor Pike is the author of Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001 (Cornell UP, 2007); Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800–1945 (Cornell UP), shortlisted for the 2006 Modernist Studies Association book prize; Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Cornell UP), recipient of the 1997 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997; and articles on medieval literature, modernism, film, and Paris and London. He is co-author of Literature: A World of Writing (http://vigstage.pearsonhighered.com/showcase/pike1e) and co-general editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature. In addition to urban culture and the underground, he teaches courses on European and Canadian cinema, film noir, the western, modernism, Dante, Roman literature, and the novel. From 1993 to 1995, Professor Pike was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University.
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Degrees
PhD, Comparative Literature, Columbia University
MA, French, Romance Philology, Columbia University
BA, Film, Literature & Critical Theory, Swarthmore College -
Favorite Spot on Campus:
My office and that magnolia tree that used to be outside my window
Book Currently Reading:
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Meat; Ismail Kadare, The Palace of Dreams
Languages Spoken:
French, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin
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OFFICE
- CAS - Literature
- Battelle Tompkins - 212
- Spring '12: Tu 1:30-2:30, 4-7; F 1:30-2:30, 4-6
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Teaching
Fall 2011
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- LIT-135 Critical Appr to Cinema
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- LIT-367 Topics in World Literature: Introduction to Urban Culture
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Spring 2012
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- GNED-210 General Education Area 1 Topic: Cinema and the 20th Century
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- LIT-346 Topics in Film: The Western
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AU News and Achievements
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David Pike Researches Modern Urban Underworlds
Literature professor David Pike investigates underground spaces, brings photography exhibition to AU....
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