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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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