• Doctorate in Philosophy, Comparative Literature & Master’s of Arts in Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Double major in Philosophy and Literature Eisenhower College.

Dr. David has lived in Nicaragua since 1986. Until 1994 he taught translation and interpretation at the Central American University in Managua. He then worked as a freelance professional translator and interpreter until 2017, when he joined the Keiser University Latin American Campus, where he teaches English Composition, Professional Writing and American Literature. He has recently finished a book on an important Nicaraguan poet, Joaquín Pasos, and is  is currently working on a bilingual anthology of Carlos Martínez Rivas, who is relatively little known outside Nicaragua, except among Latin American poets and intellectuals, who acknowledge him as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century in Spanish-language letters.