David Kaufmann

Professor

contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;

David Kaufmann attended Princeton and Yale Universities and has been a member of the English Department at George Mason University since 1989. He is the author of The Business of Common Life (Johns Hopkins, UP, 1995), Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works (U of California P, 2010) and Reading Uncreative Writing (Palgrave, 2017), as well as of Money Is the Muse of Contrition, a book of poetry, published by Dos Madres Press.

He has also written a bunch of articles on the Frankfurt School, on contemporary poetry and art, and on literary theory. He is currently working on a project on what poetry does and why what it does can sometimes be so hard to understand.

A frequent reviewer, he teaches a number of different courses on a number of different topics, but spends most of his time worrying about contemporary poetry, contemporary philosophy and the general state of the world.

Education

Ph.D, Yale, 1989

A.B., Princeton, 1980

Dissertations Supervised

Ellen Gorman, Art is Money-Sexy!: The Corporatization of Contemporary Art (2012)