Literature/Film. Quarterly 35.1 (2007): 389-395. “Serial Killer Fiction.”
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David Schmid Department of English 306 Clemens Hall, University at Buffalo, NY 14260-4610
(716) 645-0679
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Education: 1989-1995 1987-1988 1983-1986
Stanford University, Stanford, California Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature University of Sussex, Brighton, England M.A. in Critical Theory Pembroke College, Oxford University, England B.A. in English Literature
Employment: 2004-present 1998-2004 1997-1998 1994-1997
Associate Professor of English, University at Buffalo Assistant Professor of English, University at Buffalo Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University at Buffalo Lecturer in English, University at Buffalo
Honors and Awards: 2007 2007 1999
1994-1995 1993-1994 1992-1993 1992
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SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (awarded by the State University of New York). Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching (awarded by Student Association at SUNY Buffalo) Research Grant of $33,000 from United University Professions. Role: Principal Investigator. Project Title: "Popular (Pulp) Fiction: A Database and Website Supporting Multidisciplinary Cultural Studies." Research Fellowship, SUNY/Buffalo. Teaching Fellowship in Writing and Critical Thinking, Stanford University Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University Irvine Foundation Grant in Multicultural Education to design an interdisciplinary course on race and racism entitled "Dynamics of Racial and Cultural Conflict in the United States." Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
Publications: Book (Single-Authored) Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (University of Chicago Press 2005; Schmid
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Paperback edition 2006).
Book (Co-Authored) Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics. NY: Palgrave, 2015.
Books (Edited Volumes) Violence in American Popular Culture (2 volumes), Westport: Praeger, 2015. Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (coedited with Andrew Pepper) Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016. The Crime Fiction Reader: Craft and Criticism. NY: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017. DVDs The Great Courses: The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction. The Teaching Company, 2016.
Journal Articles “A Vocation/Avocation.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 15.1 (Dec. 2014): 169-172. “The Saw franchise and the representation of terror in post-9/11 American film,” Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.3 (Nov. 2011): 341-348. “Letter to Obama,” Politics and Culture, Issue 1 (2009) http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=708 “The Kindest Cut of All: Adapting Thomas Harris’s Hannibal,” Literature/Film Quarterly 35.1 (2007): 389-395. “Serial Killing in America After 9/11,” Journal of American Culture 28.1 (2005): 61-69. “Murderabilia: Consuming Fame,” M/C Journal 7.5 (2004). http://journal.mediaculture.org.au/0411/10-schmid.php. "A Different Shade of Noir: Masculinity in the Novels of David Goodis," Para•Doxa 16 (2001): 153-176. "Imagining Safe Urban Space: The Contribution of Detective Fiction to Radical Geography," Antipode 27.3 (1995): 242-69.
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Book Chapters (co-authored with Andrew Pepper). “Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction,” Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime. Ed. Andrew Pepper and David Schmid. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 1-19. “The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II,” Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime. Ed. Andrew Pepper and David Schmid. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 21-38. “Introduction: Recovering American Violence.” Violence in American Popular Culture. Ed. David Schmid. Westport: Praeger, 2015. xv-xxiv. “Capote’s Children: Patterns of Violence in Contemporary American True Crime Narratives,” Violence in American Popular Culture. Ed. David Schmid. Westport: Praeger, 2015. 211-226. “From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction,” Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions. Ed Vivien Miller and Helen Oakley. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 7-23. “The Unusual Suspects: Celebrity, Conspiracy, and Objective Violence in Glamorama,” Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama and Lunar Park. Ed. Naomi Mandel. London: Continuum, 2011. 69-83. “The Nonfiction Novel.” The Cambridge History of the American Novel, Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Claire Eby and Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. 986-1001. “A Philosophy of Serial Killing: Sade, Nietzsche, and Brady at the Gates of Janus,” Serial Killers and Philosophy. Ed. Sara Waller. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 29-40. “David Goodis,” A Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 487-495. “True Crime.” A Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 198-210 “The Devil You Know: Dexter and the 'Goodness' of American Serial Killing,” Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television. Ed Douglas Howard. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010. 132142, 253-4. “Manhood, Modernity, and Crime Fiction,” A Concise Companion to American Fiction, 19001950. Ed. Peter Stoneley and Cindy Weinstein. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 94-112. “Idol of Destruction: Celebrity and Serial Murder.” Framing Celebrity. Ed. Su Holmes and Sean Redmond. London: Routledge, 2006. 295-310. "The Locus of Disruption: Serial Murder and Generic Convention in Detective Fiction," The Art of Detective Fiction. Ed. Warren Chernaik. London: Macmillan 2000. 75-89. Schmid
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"Chester Himes and the Institutionalization of Multicultural Detective Fiction," Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the "Other" Side. Ed. Adrienne Gosselin. New York: Garland, 1998. 283-302. "Is the Pen Mightier Than The Sword?: The Contradictory Function of Writing in Dracula," Dracula--The Shade and the Shadow: A Critical Anthology. Ed. Elizabeth Miller. London: Desert Island Books, 1998. 119-130.
Online Publications “Interview with Harold Schechter.” Twisted Tales (2015). http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2015/06/harold-schechter-interviewed-by-david.html “Serial Killer Non-Fiction.” Crimeculture.com (2008). http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Serial_Killers_NonFiction.html “Serial Killer Fiction.” Crimeculture.com (2007). http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Serial_Killers_Fiction.html
Book Reviews for Scholarly Journals The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction / Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions / Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature / Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy. Reviewed for American Literature (2015) 87(1): 200-202. LeRoy Lad Panek. The Origins of the American Detective Story. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland & Co. 2006; Ralph E. Rodriguez. Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity. Austin: U of Texas P, 2005; Mark Seltzer. True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. NY & London: Routledge, 2007. Reviewed for American Literature, March 2008. Greg Forter, Murdering Masculinities Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel. NY: NYU Press, 2000. Reviewed for Para•Doxa 16 (2001): 247-254.
Reference Articles “Mike Hammer,” Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew Bruccoli et al. NY: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2007. “Philo Vance,” Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew Bruccoli et al. NY: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2007. "David Goodis," Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Hard-Boiled Crime Writers. Ed. Julie and George Anderson. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2000. 157-165. "Cornell Woolrich," Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Hard-Boiled Crime Writers. Ed. Schmid
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Julie and George Anderson. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 2000. 349-363. "Arthur Cheney Train," American National Biography. Vol. 21. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 799800. "Cornell Woolrich" American National Biography. Vol. 23. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 857-858.
Work-in-Progress Book chapter. “Cutting Both Ways: Objective and Subjective Violence in The Axe.” (accepted for inclusion in volume of essays on Costa-Gavras) Book chapter. “Teaching True Crime.” (accepted for inclusion in volume of essays on Teaching Crime Fiction). Book chapter. “Fiction and the Culture Industry in the 1930s.” (accepted for inclusion in The Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s). Book chapter. “The Suburb in American Crime Fiction.” Mysterious America: Studies in American Detective and Crime Fiction. (collection under review).
Invited Lectures and Keynote Addresses: “Time and Space in Crime Fiction.” Keynote. Crime Fiction Here and There: Time and Space. Gdansk, Poland. September 2016. “Popular Cultures of Violence.” University of Utrecht, Netherlands. November 2015. “The United States of Murder: On the American Obsession with Homicide.” University of Groningen, Netherlands. November 2015. “The Moors Murders and the ‘Truth’ of True Crime.” Keynote. True Crime: Fact, Fiction, Ideology. Manchester, England. June 2014. “The Zombie as Neoliberal Symptom.” The Zombie Phenomenon: An Interdisciplinary Conversation. University at Buffalo, November 2013. “Space in Crime Fiction.” University of Exeter, England. March 2013. “Cultural Studies and Its Others.” Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, October 2012. “Monsters for a Neoliberal Age.” Re-thinking the Monstrous, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, July 2011. “The Banality of American Violence.” Keynote. Grinnell College, Iowa, March 2010. “From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction.” Keynote. University of Schmid
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Nottingham, England, September 2009. “Homicide and American Culture.” Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, April 2008. “Noir and Its Heretics.” Keynote. NoirCon, Philadelphia, April 2008. “Why is Murder So Entertaining?: On Our National Obsession with Homicide.” The Garret Club, Buffalo, February 2008. “‘Hard, isolate, stoic and a killer’: What do the Humanities Have to Say About Violence and the American Character?” Humanities Institute Open House, University at Buffalo, February 2008. “Dickens and Crime: A Life-Long Obsession.” The Dickens Fellowship, Buffalo, September 2007. “Why is Murder So Entertaining?” UB Summer Lecture Series, Buffalo, June 2007. “Celebrity Criminals.” Western New York Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Buffalo, April 2007. “William T. Vollmann and the Antinomies of American History.” Graduate Americanist Group, University at Buffalo, March 2007. “Homicide in American Popular Culture.” Cutting Edge Lecture Series, University at Buffalo, February 2007. “From the Gutter to the Stars…and Back Again: What did Philadelphia Mean to David Goodis?” Goodiscon, Philadelphia, January 2007. "'The Distilled Version of Our Own Essence': Serial Killing and Terrorism in post-9/11 America." Philosophy and the Interpretation of Popular Culture, University at Buffalo, April 2004. “Americanizing Jack the Ripper: Violence and National Identity.” University of Exeter, England, March 2004. "Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers and the Hollywood Star System." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2000. "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous to Know: Researching the Place of Serial Murder in American Culture." SUNY Fredonia, October 1998.
Conference Papers: “Spatial Decomposition in Ben H. Winters’ Last Policeman Trilogy.” ALA Symposium on the City in American Literature, New Orleans, September 2015. “Who Was Elmore Leonard and Who Will He Become?: Genre and Literary Fiction in Pagan Babies.” American Literature Association Annual Meeting, Boston, May 2015. Schmid
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“William T. Vollmann and the Antinomies of American History.” NEMLA, Toronto, March 2015 “Neoliberal Amnesia in Martín Solares’ The Black Minutes.” MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, January 2015. “Who Was Elmore Leonard and Who Will He Become?: Genre and Literary Fiction in Pagan Babies.” MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, January 2015. "City, State, and Globe in the Crime Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II.” The Global and the Local in Contemporary World Crime Fiction, Queen’s University, Belfast, June 2014. “The Suburb in American Crime Fiction.” American Literature Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, May 2014. “Legitimation Crisis: Murder in a Time of War in Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men.” American Literature Association Symposium, New Orleans, LA, October 2013. “Crime Novels or Novels About Crime?: The Case of Cormac McCarthy” American Literature Association Symposium, New Orleans, LA, October 2012. “’A Very Remarkable Creative Achievement’?: Labor Unions in Crime Fiction.” American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, May 2012. “Poe’s Spaces.” American Literature Association Symposium, Savannah, GA, September 2011. “Base and Superstructure in Crime Fiction.” States of Crime: The State in Crime Fiction. Queen’s University, Belfast, June 2011. “The Future of Crime Fiction Studies.” Roundtable Discussion at American Literature Association. Boston, May 2011. “Easy Come, Easy Go: Urban Mobility and Conflict in the Novels of Walter Mosley.” American Literature Association, Boston, May 2007. “Romanticizing the City in Detective Fiction.” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Buffalo, November 2004. "Serial Killing After 9/11." Anomalia: The Figure of the Serial Killer and the Modern Imaginary. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 2003. "Cheerleading for the FBI: Respect for Law and Order in The X-Files, Millennium, and Profiler." The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. New York University, March 2003. "The Unkindest Cut Of All: Adapting Hannibal." NEMLA, Toronto, April 2002. Schmid
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"Theorizing Violence In Theory." Invited Panel Response for "(Re)Presentations of Violence and Aggression I: Theorizing Ethics and Violence." Sponsored by Society for Critical Exchange, NEMLA, Toronto, April 2002. "The National Character of Murder: Americanizing Jack the Ripper." Popular Culture Association, Toronto, March 2002. "Managing Deviance: The Career of the FBI." Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 2001. "Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers and the Star System." Violence, Cinema, and American Culture. University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 2001. “Fatal Celebrity: The Fame of Serial Killers.” 3rd International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Birmingham, England, June 2000. "Noir Degree Zero: Free Will and Fatalism in the Novels of David Goodis." Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2000. "Discipline and Publish: From Cast the First Stone to Yesterday Will Make You Cry." NEMLA, Buffalo, April 2000. "From Quantico to Hollywood: The Journey of Serial Murder." The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. March 2000. "Dahmer's Closet: Figuring (Out) the Serial Killer." Law and Society Association, Chicago, May 1999. "A Blend of Black and Red?: Representing the Left in Chester Himes's Lonely Crusade," Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1998. "Natural Born Celebrities: The Star System and the Serial Killer Movie." Popular Culture Association, Orlando, April 1998. "The Serial Killer as Culture Industry." Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March 1998. "Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?: The Contradictory Function of Writing in Dracula." Dracula 97: A Centennial Celebration, Los Angeles, August 1997. "From Edmund Pearson to Ann Rule: Tradition and Innovation in American True-Crime Writing." Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, March 1997. "Chester Himes and the Politics of Minority Canon Formation." Rethinking Marxism: Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 1996. Schmid
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"Burroughs the Beat?" Beat Literature Symposium, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, October 1996. "Homeward Bound?: African-Americans and the Great Migration." American Studies Association, Kansas City, October 1996 . "Silencing the Whistler: Serial Murder in P.D. James' Devices and Desires." Centre for Advanced Study. University of London, England, June 1996. "Canonical Redlining: The Exclusion of Chester Himes." MELUS, Greensboro, North Carolina, April 1996. "The Sign of the City: Negotiating Urban Space in Detective Fiction." Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Sleuth to Modern Hero, Bennington College, June 1994. "Representing Deviance in Post-War America: The Example of Serial Murder.” American Studies Association Students' Committee Dissertation Showcase, American Studies Association, Boston, November 1993. "Mean Streets: Space In Detective Fiction." Twelfth Interdisciplinary Forum of The Western Humanities Conference, Stanford University, October 1993. "Serial Killing and Narrative Undecidability in P.D. James' Devices and Desires." Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 1993. "Negotiating Difference: The Killer Couple in Hollywood Cinema." Passions, Persons, Powers Conference, University of California, Berkeley, May 1992. "'Mad, Bad, And Dangerous to Know': The Representation of Serial Killers in the Discourse of True-Crime." Pacific Northwest Popular Culture Association, Vancouver, Canada, April, 1992. "Dangerous Pleasures: Reading the Extremes of Popular Culture." Popular Culture Association, Louisville, March, 1992. "Ireland/Island/Our Land: National Identity and Literature." Northwest Conference on British Studies, University of Oregon, October, 1991. "In God's Pocket?: Women and the I.W.W." Interdisciplinary Symposium on Race and Class, University of Southern California, September, 1990.
Courses Taught: Graduate: Celebrity Culture Crime Fiction Cultural Studies: The British Tradition A History of Cultural Studies Introduction to Scholarly Methods Schmid
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Monstrous Cultural Studies Multicultural Britain Readings in American Cultural Studies Transnational Cultural Studies Twentieth Century American Novel
Undergraduate: The American Dream Revisited American Thought and Culture in the 1960s Beat Culture The City in 20th Century American Literature Contemporary British Novel Criticism Horror Film Introduction to Popular Culture Modern British Novel Multicultural Britain Mystery Fiction Short Fiction Watching Television
Media Appearances: I have been interviewed by and provided expert commentary on popular culture and literature for documentary filmmakers, as well as newspaper, radio, and television journalists, both nationally (Associated Press, The Atlantic, CBS, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, CourtTV, CSpan, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, NPR, PBS Newshour, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Magazine, Washington Post) and internationally (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, La Repubblica (Italy), Reforma (Mexico), Reuters, Sunday Times, Toronto Globe & Mail).
Academic and Professional Service: I have served as the UB English Department’s Director of the Master’s Program, Director of Graduate Admissions, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair, and Acting Department Chair. In addition, I have served on or chaired multiple hiring committees, as well the Graduate Review Committee, the Admissions Committee, the Undergraduate Review Committee, and the Executive Committee. At various times, I have also served as the faculty mentor to student groups, including the Graduate Group in British Studies and the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies. At the University level, I am on the Steering Committee of the UB Gender Institute, the Executive Committee of the UB Humanities Institute, and a member of the UB Faculty Senate. At the national level, I am the founder and director of the American Literature Association’s Crime Fiction Group, a member of the editorial board for Celebrity Studies and Chalk Outlines: Studies in Crime Writing, and a manuscript reviewer for the following journals and presses: American Literature, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Schmid
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Studies; College Literature; Critical Studies in Media Communication; University of Illinois Press; The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies; Kent State University Press; Mosaic; Oxford University Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Para•Doxa; Pedagogy; PMLA; Routledge; Studies in American Fiction; Studies in the Novel; University of Texas Press; Theory, Culture & Society; University of Chicago Press; University of Massachusetts Press; Wiley Blackwell Publishing.
Dissertation and Thesis Committees I have directed dozens of Masters theses and doctoral dissertations on topics including: 20th century and contemporary American fiction; 20th century and contemporary British fiction; 19th century American literature; cultural theory; literary theory; popular fiction; popular culture; crime fiction; Asian American fiction; African American drama; film, and cultural studies.
Professional Memberships: Member of the American Literature Association Member of the Modern Language Association Member of the Northeast Modern Language Association
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