Craig Thorn (M.A. Brown University) is the John Porter Instructor in English at Phillips Andover Academy. He has been a member of the Phillips faculty for nine years, and has taught writing since he was in high school. At Phillips he has helped design the core writing course as well as literature courses ranging from Native American works to studies of Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, and Japanese authors. In 1991 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities/Council for Basic Education summer grant supporting his study of Walt Whitman's influence on William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens.
