David Carlson

David Carlson is a Professor at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. His scholarship centers on critical approaches to education, including queer theory, post-qualitative research methodologies, and narratives of displacement. Work emphasizes ethical relationality in academic inquiry.

Research explores tensions in post-qualitative movements, anti-queerness in institutional norms, and Foucaultian analysis of educational power structures. Publications critically examine how writing and narrative mediate identity and knowledge production.

Editorial roles include contributions to Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Teaches doctoral courses emphasizing collective authorship and community of practice models.