David Sandner

David Matthew Sandner (born 1966)^[1] is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton.

Education and career

Sandner has a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon.^[2] His doctoral thesis was titled The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830, and was completed in 2000.^[3] He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton.^[2]

Books

Sandner's books include:

Fiction

• Mingus Fingers (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019)^[4]
• Hellhounds (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022)

Non-fiction

• The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996)^[5]
• Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831 (Ashgate, 2011),^[6] a two time Mythopoeic Awards finalist^[7]

As editor

• Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004)^[8]
• The Treasury of the Fantastic (with Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications, 2013)^[9]
• Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020)^[10]