David William Foster (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1964 [BA, 1961; MA, 1963 University of Washington]) Regents' Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Women's Studies at Arizona State University. He served as Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures from 1997-2001. In Spring 2009, he served as the Ednagene and Jordan Davidson Eminent Scholar in the Humanities at Florida International University. His research interests focus on urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity, as well as Jewish culture. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and he has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. He has also served as an Inter-American Development Bank Professor in Chile. McFarland Publishing brought out Urban Photography in Argentina in 2007. São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production was published in 2011 by the University Press of Florida. In 213 Fosterr published Latin American Documentary Filmmaking: Major Texts and Glimpses of Phoenix: The Desert Metropolis in Wirtten and Visual Media. In 2013, Foster conducted an National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Professors in São Paolo on urban culture in Brazil, and in 2014 he will conduct a seminar for the Endowment in Buenos Aires on Jewish Buenos Aires.
