David Kumler (he/him/his)

Part-time Lecturer

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Contact Information

PDL A503

Office Hours

TTh 2:00-3:00

Fields of Interest

20th Century 21st Century Afro-Pessimism American Horror Music Popular Culture Racial Capitalism Subject Formation The Human

Biography

Ph.D, English Language and Literature, University of Washington, 2020

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama, 2014

B.A, Religious Studies, Belmont University 2010

Research

Selected Research

Kumler, David. "Reanimating Lovecraft: Racism and Ontological Terror in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom." Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2021, pp. 45-60. Download PDF
Kumler, David Ryan. Into the Seething Vortex: Occult Horror and the Subversion of the Realistic. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
Adviser: Eva Cherniavsky

Courses Taught

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

ENGL 204 A: Popular Fiction and Media

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2021

ENGL 200 A: Reading Literary Forms

Additional Courses

ENGL 204: Reanimating Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror and Contemporary Social Critique (U. Washington, Winter 2019)

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