David has degrees from Columbia University and the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining QMU in 2000, he was an archivist at the National Library of Scotland, a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a lecturer and senior lecturer at Napier University. While at QMU he has served as head of the former media and communication department and acting associate dean.

Research and teaching interests include print culture, media history and journalism studies. He was founder of the SAPPHIRE initiative (www.sapphire.ac.uk), dedicated to the study of Scottish print and publishing industries. He has written The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), co-authored An Introduction to Book History (2005) and edited Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition (2006), which won the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the understanding of nineteenth-century periodical studies. He has also co-edited The Book History Reader (2001, second revised edition 2006), and published six other books and over forty articles and book chapters related to print culture and media history.

He is co-editor of the Journalism Studies book series for Sage, as well as a board member of several international journals and professional organisations.

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