Franklin & Marshall College

David Kieran is Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies. He currently teaches “Introduction to American Studies” and a First Year Seminar, “9/11 and the War on Terror in U.S. Culture.” Kieran’s research focus is the intersections of cultural remembrance, the legacy of the Vietnam War, recent U.S. foreign policy, and the location of the military in contemporary U.S. culture. He is currently completing his book manuscript, “Sundered by a Memory:” Foreign Policy, Militarism, and the Vietnamization of American Memory, 1970-Present, which is under advance contract with the Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Series at the University of Massachusetts Press. He has published articles and chapters drawn from this and other projects in M/MLA: The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association and in several edited collections, and articles are forthcoming in War and Society and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. As well, he is also the co-founder of the War and Peace Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association, which seeks to facilitate networking among Americanists interested in the study of these issues.

Prior to joining Franklin and Marshall, Kieran spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned his doctorate in American Studies from the George Washington University, where among other positions he was a research assistant at the National Museum of American History and the University’s Center for the Study of Public History and Public Culture. He earned his BA in English from Connecticut College.