He is the author of Involuntary Associations (Liverpool University Press, 2014), Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography (Routledge, 2008), and Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge, 2006). The Future of English in Asia, co-edited with Michael O'Sullivan and Carmen Lee, is forthcoming from Routledge. David is currently co-editing a collection on the novelist and ecologist Mia Couto, and a journal issue titled 'Survival of the Death Sentence'.