David Sandner

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::summary American poet (born 1966) ::

David Matthew Sandner (born 1966) is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton.

Education and career

Sandner has a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon. His doctoral thesis was titled The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830, and was completed in 2000. He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton.

Books

Sandner's books include:

Fiction

• Mingus Fingers (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019)
• Hellhounds (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022)

Non-fiction

• The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996)
• Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831 (Ashgate, 2011), a two time Mythopoeic Awards finalist

As editor

• Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004)
• The Treasury of the Fantastic (with Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications, 2013)
• Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020)

References

References

1. Birth year from [https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011039968.html Library of Congress catalog entry], retrieved 2022-04-05
2. Sandner, David Matthew. (2000). "The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830". University of Oregon.
3. "David Sandner, Professor". California State University, Fullerton, Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics.
4. Reviews of ''Mingus Fingers'': Paul Di Filippo, ''[[Locus (magazine). Locus]]'', [https://locusmag.com/2020/01/paul-di-filippo-reviews-novellas-by-david-sandner-jacob-weisman-robert-levy-and-james-patrick-kelly/ Paul Di Filippo Reviews Novellas by David Sandner & Jacob Weisman, Robert Levy, and James Patrick Kelly]; ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'', [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-933846-87-3]
5. Review of ''The Fantastic Sublime'': Carrie Hintz, ''[[Utopian Studies]]'', {{JSTOR. 20719727
6. Reviews of ''Critical Discourses of the Fantastic'': Karl Bell, ''Victoriographies'', {{doi. 10.3366/vic.2014.0160; Paul Kincaid, ''[[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]'', {{JSTOR. 24352980, {{ProQuest. 1761612860; Andrew Mcinnes, ''[[Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies]]'', {{doi. 10.1111/1754-0208.12236; Mandy Poetzsch, ''Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20201129095210/http://www.fantastikforschung.de/index.php/ausgaben/9-1-2015]; Douglass H. Thomson, ''[[The Wordsworth Circle]]'', {{doi. 10.1086/TWC24065362, {{JSTOR. 10.1353/scb.2013.0017
7. (June 11, 2014). "Mythopoeic Awards finalists announced". Mythopoeic Society.
8. Reviews of ''Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader'': Carl Freedman, "Fantastic Quest", ''[[Science Fiction Studies]]'', {{JSTOR. 4241392; Christine Mains, ''[[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]]'', {{JSTOR. 43308740
9. Reviews of ''The Treasury of the Fantastic'': [[Charles de Lint]], "Books To Look For", ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140503061152/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2014/cdl1403.htm]; [[Elizabeth Hand]], "Box Of Delights", ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20041227080629/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2001/eh0109.htm]
10. Review of ''Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now'': Anthony Enns, "Academia, Fandom, and Philip K. Dick", ''[[Science Fiction Studies]]'', {{doi. 10.1353/sfs.2021.0000, {{JSTOR. 10.5621/sciefictstud.48.1.0171

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