David Markus is an interdisciplinary writer, educator, and organizer. His writing focuses on representations of dwelling and domesticity in late-capitalist contexts, social practices in contemporary art, and questions of Jewish identity and belonging in the wake of the Holocaust and in the midst of the Israeli occupation and ongoing genocidal destruction of Palestinian life and culture.
Markus is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His articles have appeared in publications such as Afterimage, Art Journal, Parapraxis, Fence, Frieze, Art in America, BOMB, American Art, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Flash Art. He is the author of Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home (Punctum Books). He was a 2024-2025 Center for New Jewish Culture Fellow.
Markus proudly serves on the organizing committee of NYU Contract Faculty United - UAW, which in 2024 achieved recognition as the largest full-time faculty union at any private university in the United States.