David Higgins is a Ph.D. graduate student working on a combined
doctorate in American Literature and American Studies. He specializes
in post-1945 American literature with an emphasis in speculative
fiction, and his critical interests include postmodernism,
imperialism, globalization, and gender. On the level of campus and
community service, David is a member of GSAC (the English Department
Graduate Student Advisory Committee) and the President of I.U. Live
Action, an organiztion dedicated to experimental improvisational
theatre and community-based philanthropy. He is also an editor for
Strange Horizons, a Hugo-award nominated online journal which
publishes fiction, poetry, reviews, and academic essays related to
speculative fiction (www.strangehorizons.com). David's
dissertation, *Empire and Multitude in Postwar Speculative Fiction*
(this title will probably change), considers the ways in which
speculative fiction offers practical and theoretical perspectives that
offer new insights for reconciling a postmodern commitment to strong
cultural relativism with a deep investment in critical inquiry
concerning conditions of postmodernity under late-capitalism.
"Multiple percussion tracks? Hah! I can do the percussion of ten men!"
"You didn't see that? You didn't see what just WENT DOWN here?"
"That's GREAT!!"
Tenor / Baritone
English / History 1999
Crown Point, IN
VoCal Leadership Roles
- Treasurer '96-98
- President '98-'99