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Both in his teaching and his research, David Squires works to clarify the relationship between literature and the various institutions responsible for producing knowledge, from research libraries to state surveillance agencies. He draws on interdisciplinary methods of archival research, institutional analysis, and close reading to explicate the cultural developments connecting industrialization to our so-called information society. His current project tracks the mutually contingent rise of library science and American empire between 1880 and 1950 by showing how modern media—ranging from anti-lynching pamphlets to radio dramas—negotiated transnational information regimes. He has published on poetry, pornography, library science, and racial violence.

Ph.D. in English 2015 
University at Buffalo

M.A. in English, 2010
University at Buffalo

B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Summa cum laude), 2005
University of North Carolina at Asheville

• Modernism
• Twentieth-century American literature
• Information culture
• Postcolonial studies
• Sexuality studies
• Digital humanities

• “Mechanical Brains: Autism and Artificial Intelligence,” Diacritics 48.1 (2020): 52-79. 
  Co-authored with Talea Anderson. “Open Access and the Theological Imagination,” Digital 
  Humanities Quarterly 11.4 (fall 2017). [approx. 9,000 words] 
• “Roger Casement’s Queer Archive,” PMLA 132.3 (May 2017): 596-612. 
• “Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law,” American Quarterly 67.1 (March 2015): 141-63.

• Guilbeau UL ɫ��AV Collection Research Fellowship, 2020-21
• Graduate School Guest Speaker Fund, 2019
• English Graduate Student Association Mary Ann Wilson Award, 2018
• Digital Humanities Summer Institute Sponsored Tuition Scholarship, 2016
• Gender Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2013-2014
• UB Humanities Institute American Studies Grant, 2012
• UB Department of English Retention Award, 2012
• Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, 2011
• English Department Syllabus Prize, 2011
• UB Humanities Institute Summer Research Grant, 2010
• UB Digital Humanities Initiative Project Grant, 2010
• Academy of American Poets Prize, 2009
• Humanities Institute Research Workshop Grant, 2008-2012
• Presidential Fellowship, 2007-2011