Dr. Craig Warren earned his B.A. (1997), M.A. (1999), and Ph.D. (2004) all from the University of Virginia. While at Virginia, he was a four-year staff member at the Rossetti Archive, one of the founding projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He also served as Director of First-Year Writing from 2003-2004.

Joining the Penn State Behrend faculty in 2004, he helped establish the Professional Writing option in English. Dr. Warren was appointed Chair of English in 2010.

He is the author of Scars To Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction (Kent State University Press, 2009), and is the founder and editor of the Ambrose Bierce Project, a digital humanities project and electronic journal.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Warren served as President of the national College English Association.