David Faulkner

David Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University's Department of English within the College of Arts and Sciences. Since joining in 2007, he has focused on teaching first-year writing courses, including the Writing Workshop, while serving as a course leader for the English Department. He previously held teaching and administrative roles at SUNY-Cortland, where he contributed to the Writing Program's assessment and design, and taught at Princeton University, community colleges, and Ithaca College. His academic work centers on literary studies and writing instruction.

• Ph.D., Princeton University
• M.A., Princeton University
• B.A., Northwestern University

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Victorian literature and the novel
• Modern British and American literature
• Nonfiction/expository writing
• Writing about popular culture

Professional Contributions: Active in writing program administration, instructor training, and curriculum development. His dissertation, Broken English: Dickens, Kipling, Conrad and Woolf in Global Space, examines globalization's impact on English literary culture in the 1860s. He has presented on authors like Arnold, Dickens, Conrad, Woolf, Kipling, and Wilde.