David Crowe attended Luther College, graduating with honors in 1982, then earned the Master's and PhD in English at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation considered the work of Ernest Hemingway and Mikhail Bakhtin, and both writers remain research and teaching interests. He is particularly interested in the writing of the many American writers who moved to Paris in the 1910s and '20s--Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. Dr. Crowe's second specialty is composition theory, which he teaches to future teachers here at Augustana. He joined the Augustana College English Department in 1989, after a year of full time teaching at Luther College. He has been chair of the department since 2002.

Other interests: Dr. Crowe is involved with Augustana's campus ministry program, where he serves on the governing committee, and takes part in special programming such as chapel talks and a recent "literature and spirituality" reading event. He and his wife, Katie Hanson, also lead a book group at their church, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa. This group has read more than 20 novels and 50 short stories in the past seven years, all of these writings concerning faith questions from Christian, Jewish, and other traditions. He offers literature courses to non-English majors on topics such as love and war, certainty and uncertainty, and meaning and faith.

Candidates for a "favorite book" site: Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, Jon Hassler's Staggerford, Elie Wiesel's Night, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time.