David Hering writes and researches on form and aesthetics in the contemporary novel, contemporary literary/theoretical depictions of the spectral, literature and cinema, and literature and popular music. He leads Illustrating Futures, a collaboration with Comics Youth and Tate, which addresses the use of comics and graphic novels in the treatment of mental health in young people. He is author of David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form (2016) and was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Centre, University of Texas at Austin, for the purposes of researching Wallace's archive. He is currently working on a new book about haunting, objects, affect and time, and co-editing (with Sarah Osment) a collection of essays on the poet and musician David Berman for Contemporaries at Post45. His novel Zealandia was shortlisted for the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize and the 2020 Northern Book Prize.
His writing has appeared in, among other publications, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Quietus, Critical Engagements and 3:AM Magazine. He has been invited to speak about his research at institutions including New York University, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Trinity College Dublin, University of York and University of Birmingham. He is also a regular attendee of the UK meetings of the Post45 group.