David Mark Diamond

David Mark Diamond serves as Associate Professor in English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, specializing in eighteenth-century British literature's intersections with religious transformation and imperial formations.

His academic credentials include:

• A.B. in English and Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College
• A.M. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago

Diamond's research investigates how secularization processes detached Christian belief from doctrinal orthodoxy while reinforcing European racialized planetary domination. His forthcoming monograph Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the 18th-Century Novel (University of Virginia Press) argues that persistent two-dimensional characterization in Restoration-to-Romantic era novels manifests secularism's disciplinary function, where spiritual instability interfaces with physiognomic representations of race and gender to justify imperial violence. Current work examines Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and James Wedderburn's development of counterfactual postsecular critique frameworks operating outside secularist paradigms.