David WeirDavid Weir is an American scholar who has written widely on the Decadent movement in literature and its impact in America. He is Associate Professor on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science ad Art. Weir is internationally renowned as an expert on the works of James Joyce and on the culture of decadence. He taught courses in those two subjects at Cooper Union, as well as courses in linguistics, anarchism, orientalism, aesthetics, and European cinema. Read More Read Less