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David Van Leer
David Van Leer (December 26, 1949 – April 3, 2013) was an award winning American educator and LGBT cultural studies researcher.
David Mark Van Leer was born December 26, 1949, in Rockville Centre, New York, and is a member of the Van Leer Family.
He graduated from Cornell University, Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1974 and A.B. 1971. He was a recipient of a Donald Stauffer Preceptorship. He obtained fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the California Arts Council, and three from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Van Leer taught at Cornell University and Princeton University, and in 1986 he became Assistant Professor at University of California at Davis and retired as a tenured professor.
In 2007 he received the Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching.
He provided articles to magazines like The New Republic and The Times Literary Supplement. His research field was cultural studies, with emphases in lesbian and gay studies, film studies, and multi-ethnic discourse.
Other research fields were American cultural and intellectual history 1600-1900, philosophy, literature, and popular American culture from World War I to the present.
He served on the Board of Editors of American Quarterly and on the Advisory Board for the Graduate Record Examinations Subject Exam in Literature (ETS).
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David Van Leer
David Van Leer (December 26, 1949 – April 3, 2013) was an award winning American educator and LGBT cultural studies researcher.
David Mark Van Leer was born December 26, 1949, in Rockville Centre, New York, and is a member of the Van Leer Family.
He graduated from Cornell University, Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1974 and A.B. 1971. He was a recipient of a Donald Stauffer Preceptorship. He obtained fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the California Arts Council, and three from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Van Leer taught at Cornell University and Princeton University, and in 1986 he became Assistant Professor at University of California at Davis and retired as a tenured professor.
In 2007 he received the Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching.
He provided articles to magazines like The New Republic and The Times Literary Supplement. His research field was cultural studies, with emphases in lesbian and gay studies, film studies, and multi-ethnic discourse.
Other research fields were American cultural and intellectual history 1600-1900, philosophy, literature, and popular American culture from World War I to the present.
He served on the Board of Editors of American Quarterly and on the Advisory Board for the Graduate Record Examinations Subject Exam in Literature (ETS).