awards nationality notableworks name language genre article_title education birth_name occupation alma_mater
macvicar : fulbright woodrow wilson rockefeller foundation fellows -lrb- top mit teaching award -rrb- fellowships american '' initiation '' david thorburn english literary criticism , media studies , modernist literature david thorburn -lrb- scholar -rrb-
 stanford -lrb- m.a. , ph.d. -rrb- david thorburn scholar , mit communications forum , director princeton -lrb- a.b. -rrb-
david thorburn -lrb- scholar -rrb-

david thorburn is an american professor of literature at the massachusetts institute of technology who is notable for media studies , literary criticism , and teaching .
he has published poetry in `` slate magazine '' , `` threepenny review '' , and `` the atlantic '' .
he was one of the first academics to study the medium of television as an academic field of inquiry .
he is the director of mit 's communications forum .
he is regarded as an authority on modernist literature , and he was selected by the `` teaching company '' to teach a course on entitled `` masterworks of early 20th-century literature '' .
