Before that, he taught at the University of Edinburgh, serving as head of the English literature department from 1997 to 2003.
[4] He has published on authors including W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Iain Banks.
[5] His 1984 book on Yeats, Eliot, and Pound was described by Seamus Deane as lacking a little clarity, panache and focus, but offering an "engrossing" exploration of the relationship between modernism and reactionary politics, which he links via memory, and particularly Archibald Alison's theory of associationism; Deane called it "a complicated story, illustrated by Craig with such well-chosen and well-timed quotations that it is difficult to resist.
"[5] In 1991 he wrote "Rooms without a view", an influential article attacking "heritage film".
He has also been involved as editor or publisher with magazines including Cencrastus, Edinburgh Review and Radical Scotland.