Center for Adult and Professional Studies

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3491
Email: aivanovcraig@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad #30
Office Hours: Wed. and Thurs., 3-4 p.m

Andrea Ivanov-Craig, Ph.D., completed her dissertation on American comedic film and literature from the decades of the 30s and 40s. Since then, she has sought out the ways comedy works in film, particularly when it comingles with parody and issues of faith and healing. She has taught a variety of literature-based survey courses including American Literature to 1865, World Literature from the Renaissance, and Introduction to Literature. Ivanov-Craig has published articles about the films of Mae West and on the short fiction of Dorothy Parker. She has delivered conference papers on Mae West, comedy auteur Preston Sturges, and controversial Christian Anne Lamott. Her latest interests include the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, on whom she has publicly lectured and on whom she is currently teaching a course. In spring, she will teach the department’s course in film and literature. Ivanov-Craig has also been active in incorporating service-learning into her Freshman Writing Seminars. Students teach a brief series of lessons at local schools, adapting their learning to writing lessons appropriate for younger students.

Ph.D. - English, University of Southern California (USC), 1994
M.A. - English, University of Southern California (USC), 1988
B.A. - English, University of Redlands, 1983

Presentations
“Humor as Hope In Motherhood: A Reading of Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year,” Western Regional Conference of Christianity and Literature, Azusa Pacific University, March 2002.

"Andre Dubus and the Realms of the Heart," Western Regional Conference of Christianity and Literature, Seattle Pacific University, October 2000.

"Mything the point: Symbol, Allegory and Myth in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia,” Co-presenter with Diana Glyer, Azusa Pacific University, Common Day of Learning, March 1, 2000.

Publications
"Back to Bach,” Review of Bach's Passion: The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach by RuthAnn Ridley, in Christianity and the Arts Online, Summer 2000.

Dean’s Accomplished Scholar Award, 2001 and 2002
Faculty Development/Creative Teaching Grant, 1999-2000
Mini-Grant for Community Service Learning, 1997
Calvin College Faculty Summer Seminars In Christian Scholarship Grant, Summer 1996
Virginia Middleton Fellowship (Dept. of English, USC) 1992-93
USC University Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92

Comedic theory, film and literature, faith and humor, community service learning, composition, feminist and literary theory, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ann Lamott, Mae West, Dorothy Parker, Preston Sturges, and James Thurber

Freshman Writing Seminar (ENGL 110)
Introduction to Literary Analysis (ENGL 112)
World Literature to the Renaissance (ENGL 324)
World Literature since the Renaissance (ENGL 334)
American Literature to 1865 (ENGL 344)
Composition: Theory and Practice (ENGL 407)
American Novel (ENGL 410)
Contemporary Literary Criticism (ENGL 480)