David Deutsch

David Deutsch

Professor
Chair

Education

  • PhD, English, Ohio State University, 2011

Research Areas

  • 20th-Century British Literature
  • Late American Literature

Bio

Professor David Deutsch earned his PhD at the Ohio State University in 2011, having previously earned his MA and BA from the University of Georgia. He joined the Department of English at The University of Alabama in 2011.

He is the current chair of the Department of English.

Selected Publications

Books

Articles and Essays

  • “A Modern Pietà: Hugh Auchincloss Steers’ Hospital Bed and Reconceiving a Holy Family.” Source: Notes in the History of Art 42.4 (2023): 289-298.
  • “Ecstatic Queer Nature: Flowers, Seeds, and Everyday Joys in the Painting of Jonathan Lyndon Chase.” QSMPC 6.3 (2021): 255-270.
  • “Gio Black Peter’s Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City.” Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Ed. Jeremy Tambling.  Palgrave, 2021.
  • “Richard Bruce Nugent’s Unpublished Modernism.” Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to Archivalism. Eds. M. Feldman, E. Tonning, and A. Svendsen. Bloomsbury Academic,  2021.
  • “John Rechy’s Bad Beatitudes: Surviving the Desire for Salvation.” TSLL 61.3 (Fall 2019): 244-69.
  • “Jim Grimsley’s Boulevard and Queer New Orleans Flâneuries.” LIT 28.4 (Fall 2017): 296-316.
  • “Robust Bodies and Social Souls: Reassessing Ronald Firbank’s Effeminate Queer Men.” Studies in the Novel 47.4 (2015): 469-90.
  • “Virginia Woolf, Katharine Burdekin, and Britain’s Cosmopolitan Musical Culture.” Virginia Woolf Writing the World. Eds. Pamela L. Caughie and Diana L. Swanson.  Clemson University Press, 2015.
  • “To ‘Ennoble and Fortify’: Pater’s Oxonian Musical Ideal.” The Pater Newsletter 65 (2015): 5-25.
  • “Art and Imperfection: Zola’s L’Oeuvre.” AJFS 52.1 (2015): 73-86.
  • “The Pianola in Early Twentieth-Century British Literature: ‘Really it is a wonderful machine.’” ELT 58.1 ( 2015): 73-90.
  • “Introduction to Beverley Nichols’ Crazy Pavements.” Crazy Pavements. Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2013. v-x.
  • “Reconnecting Music to Howards End.” LIT 21.3 (2010): 163-86.

Reviews

  • “Early Modernist Travel Writing and Travel Fiction.”  English Literature in Transition 59.3 (2016): 413-17. (Review of Robert Burden’s Travel, Modernism and Modernity).
  • “A True Spectrum of Queer North Carolina Writing.”  NCLR (2020): online. (Review of Wilton Barnhardt’s edited collection Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina).