David Serlin

David Serlin is a professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Serlin is the author or editor of numerous books including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (2004), which was awarded the inaugural Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize from the Modern Language Association; Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (2010); Keywords for Disability Studies (2015); and Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (2024). He is also an editor-at-large at Cabinet, a founding editor of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and the co-author, with Brian Selznick, of the New York Times-bestselling children’s book Baby Monkey, Private Eye (2018). In 2020 he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome.