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Christopher Craig

Department:
English
Title:
Senior Lecturer

Degrees

PhD, English Literature, Tufts University

MA, English Literature, Tufts University

BA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts Boston

Professional Publications & Contributions

Creative Nonfiction

“Terminal,” The Threepenny Review (forthcoming, spring 2025)

“Taste of Prison,” The Threepenny Review (170) Summer 2022

 “Here’s What I Don’t Say,” The Threepenny Review (158) Summer 2019

 “I Can’t Tell You More Than That,” The Southeast Review (37:2) September 2019

—Selected as notable literary nonfiction by Best American Essays, 2020

Academic

Craig et al. “What Will You Do with a Degree in English? A Cohort Model for Integrating Career Learning,” ADE (160) January 2024

“John Trudell and the Spirit of Life,” Works & Days (33 & 34) January 2017

—Republished, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (30) 2018

–-Republished, Cultural Logic Fall 2017

“‘Nobody’s a Bum all Their Life’: Teaching Class through William Kennedy’s Ironweed.” Radical Teacher (86) March 2009

The New Yorker’s ‘Hiroshima’: Caribbean Cruises, Tiffany Diamonds, and the Atomic Bomb” Reconstruction (8:1) January 2008

Reviews

Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird (Random House 2020) The Threepenny Review (164) Summer 2021

Johannes Lichtman, Such Good Work (Simon and Schuster 2018) The Threepenny Review (159) Fall 2019

Iian Topliss, Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg (Johns Hopkins 2005) American Studies Journal (49:1) Spring 2009

 

Additional Information

Teaching Interests

Early American Literature; American Cold War Literature; Multicultural Literature; Contemporary American Literature; Modern American Literature; The American Short Story; 19th Century American Literature; American Working-class Literature; Literature and Film; Literary Theory; Introduction to Literary Studies; Rhetoric and Composition

Awards

  • Mellon Grant, January 2020
  • Jasper and Marion Whiting Foundation Grant, February, 2010