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David Bleich
Professor of English
PhD New York University
Literary and language theory, writing and language pedagogy, women's studies, science studies, Jewish studies, film and popular culture
Research/Writing interests
David Bleich's research has been principally concerned with language and literature in society, including the history of the university and postsecondary pedagogy; the study of the use of language and the function of literary and other symbolic "written" texts in social contexts; and the history and philosophy of language research and pedagogy.
Selected publications
Author
- Readings and Feelings, National Council of Teachers of English 1975
- Subjective Criticism, Johns Hopkins 1978
- Utopia: The Psychology of a Cultural Fantasy, UMI Research 1984
- The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations, Oxford 1988
- Know and Tell: A Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership, Boynton/Cook 1998
- "The Materiality of Reading," in New Literary History 37.3 (2006)
- "What Literature is 'Ours'"? in Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response, ed. Patrocinio P. Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn, Modern Language Association 2004
- "The Collective Privacy of Academic Language," in The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric, ed. Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent, Utah State 2004
- "Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription," in Autobiographical Writing across the Disciplines, ed. Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey, Duke 2003
- "The Materiality of Rhetoric, the Subject of Language Use," in The Realms of Rhetoric: The Prospects of Rhetoric Education, ed. Joseph Petraglia and Deepika Bahri, SUNY 2003
- "The Materiality of Language and the Pedagogy of Exchange," in Pedagogy 1.1 (2001)
Editor
- Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research, with Sally Barr Reagan and Tom Fox, SUNY 1994
- Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing, with Deborah Holdstein, Utah State 2002
Teaching
Recent undergraduate courses
- The Changing Genres of Erotica (fall 2006)
- Family Repression and Rage in Film and Society (spring 2007)
- Problems of Western Civilization (spring 2005)
- Masculine Discontent in Film and Society (spring 2004)
- Orality, Language, and Literacy (fall 2006)
- Hollywood and Jewish Values in America (spring 2005)
Recent graduate courses
- The Sacralization and Desacralization of Texts (spring 2007)
- Orality, Language, and Literacy (fall 2006)
- Recent Trends in Rhetoric and Composition (fall 2005)
- Language and Genre in Theory and Criticism
david.bleich@rochester.edu
(585) 275-8568
509 Morey Hall
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