David C. Dougherty

Education

• Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)

Courses Taught (Graduate Program in Liberal Studies)

• The Story of the Sixties
• Rage for order: Modern Southern American Literature
• Shakespeare and Film
  • Detective Fiction and Film

Publications

• Compelling Evidence:  New Detective Stories (2016). Editor and Introduction
• Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin (2010)
• "Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanely Elkin."  New England Review 27 (2006): 41-46. "Baseball Story" - Editor; "Colin Kelly's Kids" - Editor
• A Casebook on Stanley Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show (2002) Editor and author of “Listening in on America: Introduction”
• A Casebook on Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom (2005) Editor and author of “’Because Everything Has a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation.’ Our Ticket to The Magic Kingdom.”
• Articles on various authors, The Literary Encyclopedia

Areas of Specialization

• Middle East and North Africa
• Disability
• Gender

Teaching Interests

• Modern British and American poetry, 1900-1945
• Postmodern British and American poetry, 1945-1990
• Shakespeare's English history plays
• Modern British and American fiction, 1900-1945
• Postmodern American fiction, 1955-2005
• The American sixties
• Detective fiction

News

• American Historical Association Member Spotlight: Sara Scalenghe. 
• The National Endowment for the Humanities awards Dr. Scalenghe a $210,912 grant to direct a Summer Institute for College and University Teachers entitled "Global Histories of Disability."
• Detective and crime literature, filming Shakespeare's plays, Vietnam War fiction and films, sports and literature