David Venditto received a BA in English from Rider University in
2000, and taught at a Lycee in France for one year before going to
obtain a Masters in English and American literature. He received an
MA from The College of New Jersey in 2003, and was teaching at a
variety of institutions before entering the DA program at St.
John’s University in the fall of 2008.
Research interests include the ways in which cultural, personal,
and ethnic backgrounds affect the ways in which people learn and
become literate. He is also interested in film and TV, specifically
depictions of post apocalyptic worlds, the creation of the American
gothic, and the stylistic influences of film noir. Currently, he is
writing a paper for the PCA/ACA Pop Culture conference in New
Orleans, dealing with the consumption of food in David Lynch’s
Twin Peaks (the paper is entitled: “’This Must Be Where
Pies Go When They Die’: Pie and the Sublime in Twin
Peaks”). Also in the works is a paper exploring the
connections between Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Ridley
Scott’s Blade Runner, and the ways in which machines are
shown to be capable of synthesizing seemingly opposed
forces.