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David Thorburn

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Scholar, poet, professor

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David Thorburn
Literature
#5078
World Rank
#7909
Historical Rank
#2339
USA Rank
Writing
#2123
World Rank
#2711
Historical Rank
#1355
USA Rank
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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.

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