David E. Nye Professor Department of English University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Tel: +45 6550 3132 Fax: +45 6593 0490 E-mail: nye@hist.sdu.dk Publication list CV

David E. Nye graduated from Amherst College and completed his MA and PhD at the University of Minnesota. He has taught American studies in the United States, Spain, the Netherlands, and Denmark, and lectured throughout Europe on American history and culture. The 16 books he has edited or written include Electrifying America (winner of the Dexter Prize and the Abel Wolman Award), American Technological Sublime, Narratives and Spaces, and Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. He also served as the narrator and one of the scriptwriters for the eight part Danish television series, "Inventing Modern America." As the first chair of Odense's Center for American Studies, he founded the OASIS publication series in 1992. Formerly President of the Danish Association for American Studies and Vice-President of the Nordic Association for American Studies, he co-edited the journal, American Studies in Scandinavia from 1996 to 2003. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT; the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Leeds, Cambridge, Notre Dame, and Warwick. his America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (MIT, April, 2003) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He received the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, its highest honor. His Technology Matters: Questions to Live With, appeared in March, 2006, and will also appear in French and German translation.

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