David Thorburn
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Scholar, poet, professor
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David Thorburn literature Degrees
Literature
#5078
World Rank
#7909
Historical Rank
#2339
USA Rank
Writing
#2123
World Rank
#2711
Historical Rank
#1355
USA Rank

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Literature
David Thorburn 's Degrees
- PhD English Literature University of Oxford
Why Is David Thorburn Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Thorburn is an American professor of literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is notable for media studies, literary criticism, and teaching. He has published poetry in Slate Magazine, Threepenny Review, and The Atlantic. He was one of the first academics to study the medium of television as an academic field of inquiry. He is the director of MIT's Communications Forum. He is regarded as an authority on modernist literature, and he was selected by the Teaching Company to teach a course on entitled Masterworks of Early 20th-Century Literature.
David Thorburn 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Democracy and new media (2004) (115)
- Rethinking media change : the aesthetics of transition (2003) (111)
- Television as an aesthetic medium (1987) (52)
- Standardized practices for RNA diagnostics using clinically accessible specimens reclassifies 75% of putative splicing variants (2021) (20)
- Romanticism : vistas, instances, continuities (1973) (13)
- Conrad's Romanticism (1974) (8)
- Democracy and New Media (Media in Transition) (2004) (5)
- John Updike : a collection of critical essays (1979) (5)
- Interpretation and judgment: A reading of Lonesome Dove (1993) (3)
- New Vocationalism in the Colleges of Higher Education. (1980) (2)
- Competency-based standards for Medical Scientists (2009) (1)
- Media and Popular Culture A Series of Critical Books (2005) (1)
- Beyond integration: new directions in the public sector (1978) (1)
- Sociology and Teacher Training: Some reflections on colleges in transition (1987) (1)
- Unstable platforms: TV in the digital age (2019) (1)
- The Mythical Interpretation of the Gospels; Critical Studies in the Historic Narratives (2007) (1)
- 21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2007 (2006) (0)
- American Academy of Gold Foil Operators. Clinician of the Year Award Dr. Dan Henry. (2010) (0)
- Beyond the mass audience (1988) (0)
- : Conrad's Rebels: The Psychology of Revolution in the Novels from "Nostromo" to "Victory." . Helen Funk Rieselbach. ; Coercion to Speak: Conrad's Poetics of Dialogue. . Aaron Fogel. (1987) (0)
- Soundtracks of the 80's : case studies in media music (1991) (0)
- The culture of celebrity : modern media and ideas of fame (1989) (0)
- Capitalism and Hollywood : the movies as corporate product (1990) (0)
- 21L.485 20th-Century Fiction, Fall 2002 (2002) (0)
- Industrytechnologyart, new readings of American media (1988) (0)
- JAMES W. CAREY (2009) (0)
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