- Associate Professor, English
Research Interests
- Hip-Hop Studies, Sound Studies, DJ Rhetoric
Education
- D.A., St. John's University
A product of Ravenswood and Queensbridge Houses in Queens, New York, Dr. Todd Craig is a writer, educator and DJ whose career meshes his love of writing, teaching and music. He is the author of “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies (Utah State University Press), which examines the hip-hop DJ as twenty-first century new media reader and writer and investigates the modes and practices of the DJ as creating the discursive elements of DJ rhetoric and literacy. Craig’s publications include the multimodal novel tor’cha, as well as stories and essays in various edited collections and scholarly journals including Staten Island Noir; Amplifying Soundwriting; Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric; Fiction International; Radical Teacher; Modern Language Studies; Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Composition Studies and Sounding Out!
He was guest editor of Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education for the special issue “Straight Outta English” (2017).
Dr. Craig has taught courses in English Composition and Rhetoric, Hip-Hop Studies and African American Studies within the City University of New York since 2003. Presently, Craig is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).
Recent Courses:
- Stacks, Sounds and a Record a Day: Hip Hop Literacies, DJ Rhetoric and Sonic Happenings (Fall 2022)
- "From the Block with Chains to Da Block Wit' Chains": Flashpoints in African American Rhetoric (Spring 2022)