Todd Craig is the Marks Family Senior Director of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing. He joins the Penn community from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where he held the positions of Associate Professor of Urban Education and Associate Professor of English, and from New York City College of Technology, where he served as Associate Professor of African American Studies. The Center is dedicated to teaching writing and to creating a community of writers across Penn’s undergraduate schools, strengthening the University’s commitment to developing students’ critical thinking, writing, and collaborative skills.

Craig’s research interests lie at the intersection of writing and rhetoric, sound studies, and Hip Hop studies. He is the author of “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies, for which he received the 2024 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English, and the 2025 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. K for the Way also received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America. Craig’s forthcoming book projects include Beyond “An Institution Adrift:” The Third Current of Writing at CUNY in the 21st Century and The Sonic Biography of Thin Air: A Mixtape for Sonic Rhetoric.

Craig received his doctorate in English from St. John’s University, a Master of Education in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a concentration in African American studies from Williams College.