Professor David Finkelstein

Professor David Finkelstein (BA, PhD, FEA, FRHistS, FRSA) is Professor of Cultural History and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth. Anglo-American by nature, bilingual and multidisciplinary in focus, he has published over 70 published books, essays and refereed journal articles in areas related to nineteenth-century cultural history, print culture and media history, several of which have won awards. His most recent work includes Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World (Oxford University Press, 2018), and the 850 page edited Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Current projects include edited volumes on the colonial periodical press and book history source materials, as well as work on print workplaces in Edwardian visual culture.

Qualifications

BA in English and History (1986, Columbia University)

PhD in English Literature (1990, University of Edinburgh)

Professional membership

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), 2018-present;

Fellow of the English Association (FEA), 2011-present; 

Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA), 2007-present;