David Schmid

David Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (University of Chicago Press 2005), and the editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (co-edited with Andrew Pepper, Palgrave, 2015) and Violence in American Popular Culture (Praeger, forthcoming 2016). He is the founder and director of the American Literature Association's Crime Fiction Group and an...See more

David Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (University of Chicago Press 2005), and the editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (co-edited with Andrew Pepper, Palgrave, 2015) and Violence in American Popular Culture (Praeger, forthcoming 2016). He is the founder and director of the American Literature Association's Crime Fiction Group and an editorial board member for Celebrity Studies . See less