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David C. Downing
R. W. Schlosser Professor of English

 

ADDRESS

608 Antler Drive
Lewisberry, PA 17339
W: (717) 361-1381         downindc@etown.edu
H: (717) 932-1241         DCDown2@aol.com
 

EDUCATION

B. A.           Westmont College, 1973    Valedictorian
M. A.           University of California at Los Angeles, 1975 (English)
Ph.D.           University of California at Los Angeles, 1977 (English)
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1974-1977        Teaching Fellow, Freshman Composition, UCLA
1977-1983        Assistant Professor, Department of English, 
                        Westmont College
1983-1989        Associate Professor, Department of English, 
                        Westmont College
1989-1994        Professor, Department of English, Westmont College
1994-2001        Associate Professor, English Department, 
                       Elizabethtown College
2001-2003        R.  W. Schlosser Associate Professor of English
                        Elizabethtown College
2003-                R. W. Schlosser  Professor of English
                        Elizabethtown College

COURSES TAUGHT

Writing:  First-year Composition, Intro to Creative Writing, Newswriting, Technical Writing, Writing for Publication, Writing for the Health Professions, Fiction Writing, Writing in the Social Sciences, Business Writing, Advanced Composition and Editing

 

Literature: Introduction, American Literature (all periods), Modern Novel, Modern Poetry, Arthurian Literature, Classic Russian Fiction, Christian Fantasy Literature, Introduction to Drama, Introduction to Fiction, Forms of the Quest, American Symbolists, History of Hollywood 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Stories: “A Feast of Reason and a Flow of Soul: A Cycle of Inklings 

            Stories.’ CSL: The Bulletin of the C. S. Lewis Society

·         “Lunch with C. S. Lewis” (March/April 2009)

·         “Charles Williams at the Divinity School” (May/June 2009)

·         “J. R. R. Tolkien at Home” (forthcoming)

·         “With the Inklings at the ‘Bird and Baby’” (forthcoming)

 

Blog: C. S. Lewis.com, a Website sponsored by Harper Collins.

 

Invited speaker and book-signing: "Dissidents in the Confederacy”

  • High Library, Elizabethtown College, October 17, 2007
  • The National Civil War Museum, January 16, 2008
  • Elizabethtown Masonic Lodge, March 15, 2008
  • Harrisburg Civil War Round Table, April 25, 2008
  • Phi Alpha Theta Annual Banquet, May 2, 2008
  • Gettysburg Battlefield Museum, June 27, 2009

 

Book: A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy (Nashville: Cumberland House, 2007).

·         Nominated for the Lincoln Prize, sponsored by the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College

·         “A fascinating and long-overdue book.” Tyler Tichelaar (Civil War novelist) in Reader Views

·         “A thoroughly engrossing ‘must-read’ contribution to Civil War history shelves.” Midwest Book Review

·         “Not just another Civil War book. Read and enjoy.” Civil War News

 

Book chapters: “Rehabilitating H. G. Wells: Out of the Silent Planet”; “Perelandra: A Tale of Paradise Retained”; “That Hideous Strength: Spiritual Wickedness in High Places.”  In C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. Ed. by Bruce L. Edwards. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing, 2007.

 

Essay: “Bedtime Stories and Lifetime Stories.” In The Lion and the Land of Narnia. Ed. by Robert Cording (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2008).

 

Article: “C. S. Lewis and the Region of Awe,” Conversations: A Forum for Authentic Transformation. Vol. 6:1 (Summer 2008), 64-68.

 

Invited speaker and booksigning: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The Book and the Film,"

  • “2007 Wildwood Writers Festival,” Harrisburg, PA, April 13, 2007.
  • “Conference on Faith and Imagination,” Vancouver, B. C., October 12, 2007
  • “C. S. Lewis in the 21st Century,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, January 26, 2008.

 

Interview/podcasts: "The Spiritual Journey of C. S. Lewis" and "C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles."

Two half-hour radio interview/podcasts with Brent Siddall of Trans World Radio in London. April 2007.

Book: Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

  • Recommended as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year on C. S. Lewis in Christianity Today.
  • Reviews or author interviews in U. S. News & World Report, Christian Century, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, San Antonio Express-News, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Calgary Herald, Toronto Globe & Mail, and dozens of local and regional newspapers and journals.
  • Interviewed on National Public Radio (Philadelphia), as well as radio stations in Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Omaha, Detroit, Orlando, Milwaukee, Washington D. C., and St. Louis.
  • Lectures and book signings at conferences or bookstores in Oxford, England; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, Harrisburg, York, Camp Hill, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
  • Translated into Korean, Japanese, Polish.

Book: Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis. Chicago, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005.

  • Recommended as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year on C. S. Lewis in Christianity Today.
  • Reviews or author interviews in Books & Culture, Mythprint, Reformation Journal, Library Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Modesto Bee, and many other regional newspapers and journals.
  • Interviewed on radio stations in Washington D. C., Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Detroit.
  • Released as an audiobook by Blackstone Audio and an mp3 on Audiobooks.

Book: The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith.
Chicago, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002.

  • Awarded a Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant, Wade Special Collections Center, Wheaton, Illinois.        
  • Named one of the Top Ten Books of the 2002 in the category of  Religion by the American Library Association.
  • 2002 Gold Medal Finalist, Christian Publishers Association.
  • Featured author at book-signing party at the Christian Booksellers Association, Indianapolis, January 31, 2002.
  • Television interview in Indianapolis; radio interviews with stations KFUO (Kansas), WWJC (Minnesota), KNEO (Missouri), KIXL (Texas), KSIV (St. Louis),  WWIB (Wisconsin), WPTT (Pittsburgh), Uninews (syndicated), WDEO (Detroit), KDOV (Oregon), and TWR (London)
  • Included in Amazon.com’s Top 50 Bestsellers, April 2002.
  • Translated into Italian, Korean, and Portuguese.
  • Released as an audiobook by Blackstone Audio.

Book chapter: "Science Fiction," Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis, ed. by Thomas L. Martin. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book, 2000.

Article: "From Ogre to Buffoon: Uncle Andrew in Magician's Nephew
    as a Portrait of Robert Capron," CSL: The Bulletin of the New York      C. S. Lewis Society. December 2000, 1-7.

Article: "'The Torch of Civilization': C. S. Lewis on War and Peace." 
    The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal,  Spring 1999, 18-26.

Article: "'The Dungeon of His Soul': Lewis's Unfinished 'Quest of
    Bleheris,'" Seven: An Anglo-American Review, Volume 17 
    (1998).

Article: "The Discarded Mage: Lewis the Scholar-Novelist on Merlin's 
    Moral Taint." Christian Scholars Review. 27:4 (Summer 1998), 
    406-415.

Article: "From Pillar to Post-modernism: C. S. Lewis and Current 
   Critical Discourse," Christianity and Literature Vol 46 (Winter 
   1997), 169-178. Rpt. Books and Culture, November 1998

Essays: "The Way We Word."  (Column on curious names and word 
    origins in Elizabethtown magazine). Rpt. in The Harrisburg 
   Patriot-News, Lancaster Intelligencer and the  Mifflinburg 
   County Register.
 

 

 

 

 


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