Background
David Halliburton was born on September 24, 1933 in San Bernadino, California, United States.
David Halliburton was born on September 24, 1933 in San Bernadino, California, United States.
David Halliburton studied at University of California in Riverside, where he reecived Bachelor of Arts in 1955, then he got Master of Arts in 1963, and finally earned Doctor of Philosophy in English in 1966.
Halliburton not only published widely on literature and philosophy but also taught and mentored a lot of students for 40 years. He was involved in the formation of centers and programs at Stanford that advanced both teaching and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Halliburton began teaching American literature in the Stanford English Department in 1966. Halliburton's final book was "The Fateful Discourse of Worldly Things", an interdisciplinary and comparative study of how we discursively "make" the world and its objects.
In addition to his notable work as a scholar, Halliburton was an engaged and active teacher with a unique ability to open up difficult texts for students. Halliburton also made numerous contributions to the university as an administrator. He founded Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning in 1975, one of the first centers of its kind to promote the advancement of college and university teaching.
David married Mary Ann Halliburton, with whom he had a son Murphy and two daughters, Susannah and Jyllian.