David is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His M.A. thesis, “The Routes of Rootlessness: Tracing Monstrous Romani Representation in Literature and Film,” explores how the historical displacement and persecution of Romani people have constructed the archetype of “the gypsy” and “the gypsy curse” in Western culture. He is also developing a book on the history of “Django” Italian films.
Conference Presentations
2024 – SCMS, “The Routes of Rootlessness: Tracing the Romani in Horror Film.”
2024 – RAW, “Representations of Romani and the “Gypsy Curse” in Horror”
Education
2024 – M.A. in Literature – University of Colorado-Boulder
2012 – B.A. in English – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Honors/Awards
2024 – Community of Graduate Research Scholars (CGRS) Fellow