David Matthew Sandner (born 1966) 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. 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. He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton.
Books
Sandner's books include:
Fiction
Mingus Fingers (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019)<ref>Reviews of Mingus Fingers: Paul Di Filippo, Locus, ; Publishers Weekly, </ref>Hellhounds (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022)
Non-fictionThe Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996)Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831 (Ashgate, 2011), a two time Mythopoeic Awards finalist
As editorFantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004)The Treasury of the Fantastic (with Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications, 2013)Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now'' (McFarland, 2020)