Background
David Lavery was born on August 27, 1949, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of the late Donald and Martha Sherman Lavery.
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St. Cloud State University
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University of Florida
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College of St. Benedict
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University of North Florida
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University of Memphis
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Middle Tennessee State University
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1994
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1996
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2002
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2006
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2006
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2006
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2007
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2013
David Lavery was born on August 27, 1949, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of the late Donald and Martha Sherman Lavery.
Lavery graduated from Clarion University with a bachelor's degree in 1971. Two years later, he received his master's degree from St. Cloud State University. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Florida in 1978.
Lavery started his career as an instructor in English at the College of St. Benedict in 1975. In 1979, he joined the University of North Florida, where he worked as an adjunct assistant professor of English till 1980. He then became an interim assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, but in three years, went to Northern Kentucky University, where he held first the position of an assistant professor and then was appointed as an associate professor in 1987.
From 1988 to 1993, Lavery worked as an associate professor of communication and film studies at the University of Memphis, and since 1993 till his last years, he has been working as a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
From 2006 to 2008, Lavery also served as Chair in Film & Television at Brunel University in London.
(A reading—part psychohistory, part semiotics, part philos...)
2013(For every television series, the original vision grows wi...)
2002(David Milch, also the creator of NYPD Blue, imbued the se...)
2006(This fascinating book includes classic articles on the sh...)
2006(Dear Angela includes fourteen critical essays that examin...)
2007(The X Files is as complex and controversial a phenomenon ...)
1996(The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama ...)
2006(Full of Secrets contains virtually everything you need to...)
1994Lavery was a member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Popular Culture Association in the South, Tennessee Philological Association and Phi Beta Kappa.
Lavery was survived by his wife, Joyce Kling Lavery, research director, and daughters, Rachel Lavery and Sarah Porterfield.