David Racker

David Racker is a Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, where he has taught for 19 years—14 of them in the Intellectual Heritage Program. His research and teaching focus on modernist/postmodernist literature, documentary work, and digital storytelling.

• Expertise: American expatriate writers, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Roland Barthes, and postmodern subjectivity
• Email: dracker@temple.edu

His scholarly work examines intersections between literary modernism, philosophical frameworks (e.g., Heidegger, Marx), and contemporary cultural movements like mumblecore. Current projects include a book on postmodern subjectivity in expatriate writers.

Racker teaches courses ranging from Modern Poetry to Introduction to Literature, emphasizing critical engagement with texts and interdisciplinary approaches to arts and humanities.