Professor Emeritus
Email: ddougherty@loyola.edu 
Education
- Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
Courses Taught (Graduate Program in Liberal Studies)
- The Story of the Sixties
- Rage for order: Modern Southern American Literature
- Shakespeare and Film
- Detective Fiction and Film
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- "Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanely Elkin."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 Specialization
- Middle East and North Africa
- Disability
- Gender
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
News
- American Historical Association Member Spotlight: Sara Scalenghe.
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awards Dr. Scalenghe a $210,912 grant to direct a Summer Institute for College and University Teachers entitled "Global Histories of Disability."
- Detective and crime literature, filming Shakespeare's plays, Vietnam War fiction and films, sports and literature