David Macey was born and raised in Belmont, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University in 1988. After graduation, he spent a year working as a cook in a soup kitchen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, and then returned to Boston, where he began training to become a Roman Catholic priest.

A year later, having determined that his vocation was of a different sort, he left the seminary and went to work for a major Boston bank. He returned to school in the fall of 1992 and earned a master’s degree in English at Brown University (1994) before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned a second master’s degree (1995) and his Ph.D. (1998) at Vanderbilt University.

In the fall of 1999, Dr. Macey was appointed an assistant professor in the English department at UCO, where he taught courses on English composition, Old English language and literature, and Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature. He also directed master’s theses in creative writing, organized the Student Symposium in 2001, and acted as faculty advisor of the English Society and the Gay Alliance for Tolerance & Equality (GATE).

In 2001, Dr. Macey moved to Tacoma, Washington, where he taught for three years at the University of Puget Sound. At Puget Sound, he offered courses on Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, lesbian and gay literature, popular fiction, and literary and critical theory. He also served as associate chairperson of the English department, as chairperson of the university’s Committee on Diversity, and as a member of the advisory boards of the interdisciplinary women’s studies and honors programs.

Since returning to UCO in 2004, Dr. Macey has taught courses in the fields of English composition, Old English language and literature, Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, world literature, the history of the English language, and literary and critical theory. Dr. Macey is currently an associate professor and serves as the chairperson of the English department. He also continues to serve as GATE’s faculty advisor.

Dr. Macey is the coeditor, with Dr. Hans Ostrom of the University of Puget Sound, of the five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, and he has also published articles and presented papers at national conferences on eighteenth-century Utopian fiction, the transformation of Classical motifs in Renaissance poetry, and the representation of sexuality and gender in literature and film, among other topics.

Dr. Macey is a member of the Modern Language Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is also a supporter of the Museum of Garden History in London, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, and OUT-OK: The Oklahoma Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.