Dr. Todd Craig
Author of Tor'cha

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

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

About Dr. Todd Craig

Todd Craig is associate professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches in the African American Studies Department at New York City College of Technology and in the English Department at the Graduate Center. A writer, educator, and DJ whose career meshes his love of writing, teaching, and music, he is the author of the multimodal novel tor’cha. Dr Craig's work has been published in Staten Island Noir, Across Cultures, Fiction International,Radical Teacher, Modern Language Studies, Changing English, Kairos, Composition Studies, and Sounding Out!

K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies

Dr. Craig's latest book examines the Hip Hop DJ as a 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.