Davy Knittle

Davy Knittle

Assistant Professor
 

Office: 045 Memorial Hall

Biography

​Davy Knittle's current book project describes how writers used the tools of city planning to resist predatory redevelopment in New York from 1950 to 2020. Davy came to UD in January 2023 from Princeton University, where he was HMEI/Princeton Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Environment. Davy's scholarship has been recently published or is forthcoming in PMLA, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, and elsewhere.