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David Pan, a Republican professor of German at the University of California, Irvine, who was his party's 2024 candidate in California's 46th congressional district, faces Democratic incumbent Lou Correa there in 2026.
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Background
David Pan was born in 1963. He became a literary scholar whose work centers on German literature and intellectual history, the fields for which he is known.
Career
Pan is a professor of German at the University of California, Irvine.
His published books include Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism, issued by the University of Nebraska Press in 2001, and Sacrifice in the Modern World: On the Particularity and Generality of Nazi Myth, published by Northwestern University Press in 2012.
With Paul Michael Lützeler he edited Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen: Neue Studien, a 2001 volume of studies on the stories and plays of Heinrich von Kleist published in Würzburg by Königshausen und Neumann. Outside the university, Pan served as a member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
He entered electoral politics in 2024 as the Republican candidate for U.S. representative in California's 46th congressional district, where he finished as the runner-up to Democrat Lou Correa, who was re-elected that year with 63.4% of the vote.
2026 race
David Pan is running again in California's 46th congressional district in 2026, once more challenging Democratic incumbent Lou Correa.
In the top-two primary, Correa placed first with 51.94% of the vote and Pan, the only Republican on the ballot, finished second with 32.88%, which sent both men to the general election.
The Democrats eliminated in the primary were Christian Mendez, a data analyst, with 7.81%; Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato, with 4.86%; and Frank Bahena, a military veteran, with 2.47%. Pan and Correa face each other in the general election on November 3, 2026.