David Malone
Chair and Professor of English
Biography
Dr. David Malone has written poetry, short stories, literary criticism, news and feature articles, creative nonfiction, and a novel. He has worked as a reporter for a daily paper in DeKalb, Illinois, and a staff writer for Mission to the Americas in Wheaton, Illinois; he has also worked as a ghostwriter, a writing tutor, and a writing teacher. His most recent publication is the essay "Updike 2020: Fantasy, Mythology, and Faith in Toward the End of Time," which appeared in the collection John Updike and Religion. He holds a master's degree in creative writing from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with novelists Larry Woiwode and John Vernon. He recently presented "The 'Predictable Employment of Racially Informed and Determined Chains': Morrison, O'Connor, and the Question of Race" at "Flannery O'Connor in the Age of Terrorism: An Academic Conference on Violence and Grace," Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids.
Education
- Ph.D, Northern Illinois University
- M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
- B.A., Wheaton College