David Linton is Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, New York.

David Linton has been on the faculty of MMC for more than twenty years and holds the rank of Professor of Communications Arts.

His research interests and publications are wide ranging including such topics as the media environment of Elizabethan England, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, the history of the Luddite movement, and the formation of literary and media canons.

He is currently writing a book about the social construction and images of menstruation and teaches an interdisciplinary course on this subject in addition to course in communications theory, media, and public speaking.