David Rosen is an American literary scholar. He is a professor at Trinity College, Connecticut.

Biography

Rosen received his BA from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, MA and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. He was an instructor at Yale, and joined the faculty of Trinity College, Connecticut, in 2002. Rosen's scholarship has focused on poetry and the evolution of the concept of

privacy Privacy (, ) is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively. The domain of privacy partially overlaps with security, which can include the concepts of a ...

. Rosen won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the

Modern Language Association The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature. The MLA aims to "str ...

in 2013 for co-authoring ''The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood'' (2013) with Aaron Santesso. The book explores the way in which literature has shaped, and in turn been shaped by, surveillance and privacy practices since the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, David Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Yale University alumni Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American literary scholars