David M. Craig

Professor of Humanities and Director, Honors Program
110 Educational Resources Center
E-mail: dcraig@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315-268-2320

Education
A.B., University of Notre Dame
M.A., University of Nebraska
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Courses taught
  • The Novel: Love, Marriage, and Adultery
  • Modern Novel
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Initiation Literature: Finding One's Way in Life

Scholarly Interests
My most recent work is on contemporary American fiction, including my book Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction. My current long-term project is a book on the relationship between place and voice in contemporary American fiction. In the past, I also worked on Victorian fiction, especially Charles Dickens.

Publications
"From Avignon to Catch-22," Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, 141 (Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 2003); reprinted from "From Avignon to Catch-22," War, Literature, and the Arts (Fall/Winter 1994), 27-54.

Presentations
"Guidance, Politics and Voice – The Role of an Honors Council," presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, November 13, 2004, New Orleans.