Raymond A. Craig, Ph.D. (California, Davis)
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
rcraig2 at kent.edu
Raymond A. Craig, Ph.D. (California, Davis)
Associate Professor
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
rcraig2 at kent.edu
My "professing" includes work in the development of curricula, teaching in both literature and rhetoric and composition, and the management of programs. I am committed to the transformation of students through learning, through engagement in the discipline and the world, and through critical thought. My major publications have been in textual studies, most recently The Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor (Mellen 2008), but I am also writing a critical discourse analysis of French & Indian War documents, while finishing a new edition of Anne Bradstreet's Poems and Prose and a monograph on Early American Poetics.
Areas of Interest
Early American Literature & Culture, Systems of Writing & Representation, Critical Discourse Analysis, Rhetorical Theory, Aesthetics
Selected Publications
Books
A Concordance to the Major Poems of Edward Taylor. Four volumes. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2008.
A Concordance to the Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet. Two volumes. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2000.
A Concordance to Edward Taylor's Minor Poetry. Two volumes. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1992.
Gathering of Poets. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1992. (Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen.)
Articles & Chapters
"The 'Peculiar Elegance' of Edward Taylor's Poetic." In The Tayloring Shop, edited by Michael Schuldiner. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997. 68-101.
"Polishing God's Altar: Puritan Poetics in John Cotton's Singing of Psalmes." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality V (1996): 1-33.
"On Problems and Potentials of a Networked Graduate Class." Daedalus Wings, Spring 1995, 7-8. (S. Witte)
"Singing with Grace: Allusive Strategies in Anne Bradstreet's 'New Psalms.'" Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 1 (1990): 148-169.
"The New England Primer." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Jeffrey Gray, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006. 1132-1134.
In Progress
Anne Bradstreet's Several Poems. A scholarly edition of A.B.'s 1678 volume plus unpublished manuscript materials, contracted, U Tennessee P.
Singing Spiritual Songs: Poetics in Puritan America. Book-length study of early American poetry and aesthetics.
"Transatlantic Triptych: Bradstreet, Collins, and Margaret of Cavendish in Cosmopolitan London." Article reframing these poets as London poets of 1650s.
The Rhetoric of War in Early America: Discourse and Social Practice in the Literature of Conflict. Book-length discourse-analysis of French & Indian War narratives.
An Electronic Edition of the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown.