Professor Emeritus

ddougherty@loyola.edu  

Education

• Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)

Special Teaching Interests

• Modern British and American poetry, 1900-1945
• Postmodern British and American poetry, 1945-1990
• Shakespeare's English history plays
• Modern British and American fiction, 1900-1945
• Postmodern American fiction, 1955-2005
• The American sixties
• Detective fiction

Courses (Graduate Program in Liberal Studies)

• The Story of the Sixties
• Rage for order: Modern Southern American Literature
• Shakespeare and Film
• Detective Fiction and Film

Recent Publications

• Compelling Evidence:  New Detective Stories (2016)
  • Editor and Introduction
• Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin (2010)

• "Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanely Elkin."  New England Review 27 (2006): 41-46.
  • "Baseball Story" - Editor
  • "Colin Kelly's Kids" - Editor
• A Casebook on Stanley Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show (2002)
  • Editor and author of “Listening in on America: Introduction”
• A Casebook on Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom (2005)
  • Editor and author of “’Because Everything Has a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation.’ Our Ticket to The Magic Kingdom.”
• Articles on various authors, The Literary Encyclopedia

Areas of Interest

Detective and crime literature, filming Shakespeare's plays, Vietnam War fiction and films, sports and literature