David Rosen is an American literary scholar. He is a professor at Trinity College, Connecticut.

Biography

Rosen received his BA from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, MA and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He was an instructor at Yale, and joined the faculty of Trinity College, Connecticut, in 2002. Rosen's scholarship has focused on poetry and the evolution of the concept of

privacy Privacy (, ) is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security, which can include the concepts of a ...

. Rosen won the

James Russell Lowell Prize The James Russell Lowell Prize is an annual prize given to an outstanding scholarly book by the Modern Language Association. Background The prize is presented for a book that is an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of ...

from the

Modern Language Association The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "st ...

in 2013 for co-authoring ''The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood'' (2013) with

Aaron Santesso Aaron Santesso (born 14 September 1972) is a Canadian literary scholar and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary area of expertise lies in 17th and 18th-century literatur ...

. The book explores the way in which literature has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, surveillance and privacy practices since the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, David Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Yale University alumni Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Literary scholars