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

 

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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

CURRENT COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

     Eng 100: Writing and Language
     Eng 116: Film as Literature
     Eng 281: Writing and Analyzing the Short Story
     Eng 284: Writing in the Social Sciences
     Eng 382: Technical Writing
     Eng 383: Business Writing
     Eng 385: Writing for Publication 
     Eng 473: Internship in Professional Writing
 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

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 (Honors Society for History Majors), May 2, 2008

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

·         “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

 

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 booksignings 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," C. S. Lewis as Reader, 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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