Professor Emeritus David Bleich

David Bleich

Professor Emeritus

PhD, New York University

Research Overview

David Bleich's research has been principally concerned with language and literature in society, including the history of the university and postsecondary pedagogy; the study of the use of language and the function of literary and other symbolic "written" texts in social contexts; and the history and philosophy of language research and pedagogy.

Research Interests

  • Literary and language theory
  • writing and language pedagogy
  • women's studies
  • science studies
  • Jewish studies
  • film and popular culture

Selected Publication Covers

Selected Publications

  • Readings and Feelings, National Council of Teachers of English 1975
  • Subjective Criticism, Johns Hopkins 1978
  • Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy, UMI Research 1984
  • The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations, Oxford 1988
  • Know and Tell: A Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership, Boynton/Cook 1998
  • The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University, Indiana 2013
  • "Globalization, Translation, and the University Tradition," in New Literary History 39.3 (summer 2008), 497-518
  • "The Materiality of Reading," in New Literary History 37.3 (2006)
  • "What Literature is 'Ours'"? in Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response, ed. Patrocinio P. Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn, Modern Language Association 2004
  • "The Collective Privacy of Academic Language," in The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric, ed. Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent, Utah State 2004
  • "Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription," in Autobiographical Writing across the Disciplines, ed. Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, Duke 2003
  • "The Materiality of Rhetoric, the Subject of Language Use," in The Realms of Rhetoric: The Prospects of Rhetoric Education, ed. Joseph Petraglia and Deepika Bahri, SUNY 2003
  • "The Materiality of Language and the Pedagogy of Exchange," in Pedagogy 1.1 (2001)

Editor

  • Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research, with Sally Barr Reagan and Tom Fox, SUNY 1994
  • Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing, with Deborah Holdstein, Utah State 2002

Teaching

  • Assimilating Literary Language (spring 2013)
  • Family Repression and Rage in Film and Society (spring 2013)
  • All Is Fair in Love and War (fall 2012)
  • The Changing Genres of Erotica (spring 2012)
  • Problems of Western Civilization (spring 2012)
  • Orality, Language, and Literacy (spring 2011)
  • Hollywood and Jewish Values in America (spring 2008)
  • Materiality of Language and Literature (fall 2012)
  • Literary Theory: The Sacralization and Desacralization of Texts (fall 2010)
  • Orality, Language, and Literacy (spring 2010)
  • The Changing Genres of Erotica (spring 2008)