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Craig Morehead

Assistant Teaching Professor of English

Department: English

Office and address: Alamance Building, Office 303C 2338 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-6655

News & Notes

Education

2003, B.A. English, Baylor University

2006, M.A. English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

2015, Ph. D. English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Employment History

2015 - current Elon University, Assistant Teaching Professor of English

2012-2015 - Guilford College, English Instructor

2007-2012 - University of North Carolina, Greensboro, English T.A. - instructor of record

2006-2007 - Navarro College, Adjunct Professor of English

2004-2006 - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, English T.A.

 

Courses Taught

ENG 110 - Writing and Inquiry

ENG 255 - Topics in Literature

Research

My research covers British and Anglophone literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I focus on intersections between law, criminology, class, and literature. My work shows how law and narrative work together to construct foreign and fugitive identities in contradistinction to normative “English” identity. My readings posit important “conjunctures,” or periods of social and political contradiction, that contribute to our understanding of the relationship between law, literature, and working-class and immigrant social groups in English society. An important contribution of my research is to situate criminal identities as foundational to reading British and Anglophone literature.

 

  

Current Projects

Current Book Project: Criminal Conjunctures: Law, Fugitive Identity, and the Working Class

 

Grants Awarded

2018 - Winter Term Engagement Grant

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

“'rambling the streets of London': Virginia Woolf and the London Sketch.” in Virginia Woolf Miscellany 83 (Spring 2013): 18-20.

“Negative Entropy and the Energy of Utopian Potential in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead.” in Journal of Narrative Theory 43.3 (Fall 2013): 329-352.

Book Chapters

“Countering History's Gravity: Narrative's Proleptic Time Function.” in Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time. Ed. Olga Ast. Mark Batty, 2011. 

Manuscripts in Preparation

Criminal Conjunctures: Law, Fugitive Identity, and the Working Class in British Fiction

“Poetic Justice in Graham Greene’s Late-Modernist Thrillers”

 

Presentations

Invited Talks

2015, “Muriel Ruykeyser and the American Poetic Tradition,” Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary 

Conference Participation

Papers Presented

2019, “Corruptors of Class and Justice in Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene.” NeMLA 50.

           Transnational Spaces: Intersections of Cultures, Languages, and Peoples. March 21-24.       

           Forthcoming.

2018, “Why Grade? Rethinking Grades and Grading.” Elon University Teaching and Learning

            Conference. Busting Myths of Teaching and Learning. August 16.

2013, “Slumming London: The Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Criminal.” Society for

             Comparative Literature and the Arts. Past Tense, Future Tensions. October 18-19.

2009, “Countering History’s Gravity: Narrative’s Proleptic Time Function.” ArcheTime Cross-

             Disciplinary Conference and Exhibition. June 6-7.

2008, “The Energy of Utopian Potential in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead.” Society

            for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference 22. November 13-16.

2008, “J. M. Synge and the Irish Wake Tradition: Revenants and Resurrections in Riders to the

            Sea and The Shadow of the Glen.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 30. March

            18-22.  

Departmental talks

2018, “Contract Grading Workshop,” Elon English Department Composition Meeting

2017, “Contract Grading Workshop,” Elon English Department Composition Meeting

Professional Development

 2017 Summer Writing Institute