David F. Schmid 
Associate Professor 
Department of English 
306 Clemens Hall 
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4610 
Phone: (716) 645-2575 x1029 
Fax: (716) 645-5980 
E-mail: schmid@buffalo.edu

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David Schmid is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo. The winner of the Milton Plesur and the SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Professor Schmid teaches courses in British and American fiction, cultural studies, and popular culture. Born and raised in England, he received his B.A. from Oxford University, his M.A. from the University of Sussex, and his Ph.D. from the Modern Thought and Literature Program at Stanford University. He has published on a variety of subjects, including celebrity, Dracula and crime fiction and he is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. He is currently working on two book-length projects: Mean Streets and More: Space in Crime Fiction and The Scarlet Thread: A History of Homicide in American Popular Culture.

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