David Racker has taught at Temple University for twenty four years, the last nineteen in the Intellectual Heritage Program. He has published essays on Roland Barthes, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Paul Bowles. He’s currently working on a book length study of postmodern subjectivity in American expatriate writers and co-editing a collection of essays on music in world literature contracted to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan. His essay on James Baldwin is forthcoming in that collection. In summer 2016, he co-led Global Good in Rome and in summer 2022 taught in the Global Good Program in Prague.