David Trend

David Trend is Professor of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include Degrees of Difficulty: The Challenge of Equity in College Teaching (2025), Update Available: The Algorithmic Self (2023), Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails (2020), Elsewhere in America: The Crisis of Belonging in Contemporary Culture (2016), Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age (2012), The End of Reading (2010), A Culture Divided (2009), Everyday Culture (2007), The Myth of Media Violence (Blackwell, 2007), Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell, 2001), Cultural Democracy (1997), Radical Democracy (1996), and Cultural Pedagogy (1992). Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review.