David Van Leer

David Van Leer has taught at both Cornell and Princeton University, and was Professor of English and American Literature at University of California, Davis. He was a regular contributor to The New Republic on American culture from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. He is the author of Emerson's Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays (1986) and The Queening of America: Gay Culture in Straight Society (1995). He has also edited and written the introduction for a new edition of Edgar Allan Poe's tales, now available from Oxford University Press.