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David C. Dougherty is a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the Graduate Program in Liberal Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Miami University (Ohio) and has taught courses such as 'The Story of the Sixties,' 'Rage for Order: Modern Southern American Literature,' 'Shakespeare and Film,' and 'Detective Fiction and Film.'
- Education: Ph.D., Miami University (Ohio)
His research interests span Middle East and North Africa, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, and Jewish-American Literature. He specializes in modern and postmodern poetry (1900-1990), Shakespeare’s English history plays, 20th-century American fiction, and detective/crime literature. Dougherty is a prominent scholar of Stanley Elkin, having edited biographies, casebooks, and interviews. His publications include Shouting Down the Silence: A Biography of Stanley Elkin (2010) and Compelling Evidence: New Detective Stories (2016).
As a critic, he has contributed to The Literary Encyclopedia and New England Review, focusing on paranoia as metaphor, disability representation, and Shakespearean adaptations. His work often intersects with media studies and cultural analysis. Dougherty’s editorial projects include casebooks on Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show (2003) and The Magic Kingdom (2005), where he explores satire, narrative disintegration, and existential themes. He has also conducted extensive interviews with Elkin’s peers, archived at Olin Library, Washington University.
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