About David Gooblar

I teach, I teach teachers to teach, I write about teaching, I teach about writing, and sometimes I even write about writing.

I’m currently an assistant professor in the departments of English and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.

I’m the author of The Missing Course (Harvard UP, 2019) and The Major Phases of Philip Roth (Continuum, 2011), and the co-editor, with Aimee Pozorski, of Roth After Eighty: Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination (Lexington, 2016). Since 2013, I’ve written a mostly regular column on college teaching for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Before my current job, I was the Associate Director of Temple University’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and before that, I was a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Iowa.

I live in Iowa City. I like to cook, write and record pop songs, and spend time with my family. I tweet too much at @dgooblar.