TOM CRAIG, Ph.D
ROGUES' SCHOLAR

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Ph.D, Vanderbilt University (Religion) 1991
Ph.D, Southern Illinois University (Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication) 1997


EMBODIED WORK EXPERIENCE

Co-Director: The BodyWorks Consultation, 1996-present
(Consulting Services for the Body You Live)

Visiting Scholar in the Women's Studies Program since 1997.
Brock University. St. Catharines, Ontario.
Courses for 1999-2000 (forthcoming)
Courses for 1998-99

  • Women, Men, and the Body (Winter)

  • The Bible and the Body (Spring Evening)

    • On-site Health and Disability Communication Consultant for the Movement Education Camp for Autistic Children. Co-sponsored by the Brock University Departments of Physical Education, and Athletics and Services, and the Niagara Training and Employment Agency. St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. (Summer dates TBA) 1998; 18-29 August 1997.


    PUBLICATIONS

    Books

  • Metaphors of Social Control in a Pentecostal Sect (with junior author, Anson Shupe).
    Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

    Articles

  • "Your Body Tells ME Stories: Living Pain, Flirting Madness, Transforming Care" (co-authored with Maureen Connolly). To appear in Narratives of Professional Helping (Disability and Diversity). Thomas Bucaro, ed. University Press: California State University. 1999.

  • "Implementing a Least Restrictive Environment in a Movement Education Camp for Children and Youth with Autism / PDD" (co-authored with Maureen Connolly). To appear in Bridging the Divide: Disability in the New Millennium. Disability Studies Quarterly. Dona Avery, ed. Fall 1999.

  • "Personal Training and Disability: A Developing Relationship." (Co-authored with Maureen Connolly). Coaching One-on-One. Newsletter of the Canadian Personal Trainers Network. Vol. 6, No. 4, 1-2. Summer 1999.

  • "Liminal Bodies, Medical Codes." In Semiotics 1997. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 1998.

  • "Medicalization of the Body, Feminization of Disease, Developing Regimes of Silence" (co-authored with Maureen Connolly). In Semiotics 1996. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 1997.

  • "Living Between the Bedrock of Disability and the Hard Place of Social Identity." To appear in The American Journal of Semiotics. Volume 15, No. 2 ("The Body as Sign"). Summer 1998 (Projected).

  • "Communication and Chronic Disabling Conditions." To appear in the 1996 Proceedings of the Society for Disability Studies. Lewiston, Maine: The Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine, forthcoming.

  • "Health and Wholeness in Christian Traditions." In Challenge: Christian Perspectives on Social Issues. Nashville: The United Methodist Publishing House. Spring, 1994.

  • "Bibliography of the Writings of Walter Harrelson." In Justice and the Holy: Essays in Honor of Walter Harrelson. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.


    • CURRENT FAVORITE BOOKS

    Phenomenology, Semiotics, Feminism
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Phenomenology of Perception
    _____. The Visible and the Invisible.
    Julia Kristeva. New Maladies of the Soul.
    Patty Lather. Getting Smart. Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/In the Postmodern.

    Biblical Studies
    The Bible and Culture Collective. The Postmodern Bible.
    Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe, editors. The Women's Bible
    Commentary

    Meta-Medical Journalism
    Hillary Johnson. Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic.


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