People
Faculty
Don Daiker
Titles
- Emeritus Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., English, Indiana University, 1969
- M.A., English, Indiana University
- B.A., Rutgers University, Psychology
Teaching Interests
- Composition
- How to teach composition
- American literature
- Short stories
- Travel literature
Research Interests
- Composition
- Ernest Hemingway
Selected Publications
- “Jake Barnes as Teacher and Learner: The Pedagogy of The Sun Also Rises” in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. New Edition. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2011. Pp. 165-178.
- “‘Brett Couldn’t Hold Him’: Lady Ashley, Pedro Romero, and the Madrid Sequence of ‘The Sun Also Rises’” Ernest Hemingway: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. New Edition. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2011. Pp. 175-188.
- “How a Hemingway Story Works”: a Review Essay of Robert Paul Lamb, Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2010) in Twentieth-Century Literature 56:4 (Winter 2010) 559-556.
- “‘Don’t Get Drunk, Jake’: Drinking, Drunkenness, and Sobriety in The Sun Also Rises.” North Dakota Quarterly 76: 1 and 2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 169-185.
- “‘Brett Couldn’t Hold Him’: Lady Ashley, Pedro Romero, and the Madrid Sequence of ‘The Sun Also Rises’” in The Hemingway Review 29:1 (Fall 2009) 73-86.
- “Jake Barnes as Teacher and Learner: The Pedagogy of ‘The Sun Also Rises’” in The Hemingway Review 27:1 (Fall 2007): 74-88.
- Composition in the 21st Century: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future. Southern Illinois University Studies in the New Millennium: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. With Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.
- The Writer’s Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement. Sixth Edition. New York: Longman, 1999. With Andrew Kerek, Max Morenberg, and Jeffrey Sommers.
- Composition in the 2lst Century: Crisis and Change. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. With Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.
- New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1994. With Laurel Black, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall.
- The Writer’s Options: Combining to Composing. Fifth Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1994. With Andrew Kerek, Max Morenberg, and Jeffrey Sommers.
- The Writing Teacher as Researcher: Essays in the Theory and Practice of Class-Based Research. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1990. With Max Morenberg.
- Literature: Options for Reading and Writing. Second Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. With Mary Fuller and Jack E. Wallace.
- Sentence Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective. Carbondale, Il: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.
- “Sentence Combining and College Composition.” Monograph Supplement to Perceptual Motor Skills, 51 (1980), pp. 1059-1157. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.
- Sentence Combining and the Teaching of Writing. Akron: L & S Books, l979. With Andrew Kerek and Max Morenberg.
Work in Progress
Dr. Daiker is working on two essays—one interpretive, one pedagogical—on Hemingway’s short story “Cross-Country Snow,” and is writing a review of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907–1922, edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert Trogdon (Cambridge University Press 2011) for The Georgia Review.