Dr. David K. Dunaway
DAVID KING DUNAWAY was born and raised in Greenwich Village in New York City. He attended the University of Aix-en Provence, France, and the University of Wisconsin, with graduate training at the University of California Berkeley, where he received Berkeley’s first Ph.D. in American Studies. A professor of English at the University of New Mexico and São Paulo, he’s served as a Fulbright lecturer at the Universities of Nairobi, Copenhagen, and São Paulo. His 12 books have been translated and published internationally (www.davidkdunaway.com) and he’s worked as a consultant to UNESCO, The Today Show, and the National Park Service. His article on American culture appear in publications ranging from The Virginia Quarterly to the New York Times. His radio documentaries, such as Across The Tracks: Route 66, air internationally.
Other Works
Sensational and startling, this is the unforgettable story of the brilliant English novelist’s life in Hollywood, where he worked as a screenwriter during its Golden Age and his experiments with alternate health and psychedelics.
A Route 66 Companion gathers fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history. From accounts of pioneering trips across the western plains to a sci-fi fantasy of traveling Route 66 in a rocket, here are stories told by master storytellers Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck.
For those interested in music biographies and folk music revivals–or anyone looking for a truly American story, Seeger’s biography reveals how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel.
For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this will be a book to give and to cherish, with extensive notes, bibliography, and discography, plus an attractive photo section.
Researching Route 66 details where researchers, students, and stakeholders can find material on the Mother Road.
Dunaway brings a well-crafted account of the prolific Huxley’s American years using oral histories with Huxley’s family and friends, his FBI files, and little-known scripts of “Jane Eyre” and “Pride and Prejudice”. Learn how the first novelist of human cloning had a second act in America.
Writing the Southwest (Plume, 1995. University of New Mexico Press, 2003.) is an assemblage of interviews, bibliographies, excerpts, and criticism on fourteen of the Southwest’s most important authors (updated and expanded).
Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum, collects classic articles demonstrating the basic applications of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for research.
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American history, and his catalog tells us not just the story of his career but the story of our culture and its political and social history.
Invited Lectures and Keynotes
- American Folklore Society
- Czech Academy of Sciences
- Stanford University: American Studies
- University of São Paulo
- University of Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Copenhagen
- UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Charles University, Prague
- La Sabonne, University of Paris
- Heidelberg University, Germany
- Library of Congress
Grant Recipient
- State Endowments, and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Power Company of New Mexico
- University of São Paulo
Honors
- Knight Digital Media Fellowship UC Berkeley
- Vox Populi (Voice of the People) Award Oral History Association
- Wertheim Distinguished Lectureship University of New Mexico
- International Radio Festival Bronze, Gold Medals
- Fellowship Danish Research Council
- Fulbright Scholar, Colombia, Kenya, Brazil
- Visiting Fellow Huntington Library
- Fellowship Government of Canada
- Deems Taylor Award American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Regions Fellowship, Steager Prize UC Berkeley