Nancy Grace

Department/Affiliation: English; Center for Diversity and Global Engagement
Phone: 330-263-2472
Office Address: 111 Babcock
Email: ngrace@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Otterbein 1973
• M.A., Ohio State 1981
• Ph.D., Ohio State 1987

Courses Taught

• ENGL 260: News Writing and Editing
• ENGL 401: Junior Independent Study
• Beat Literature
• Journalism
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• WGSS 120: Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• WGSS 310: Seminar in Feminist Learning & Teaching
• WGSS 330: Feminist Methodologies

Awards and Professional Memberships

• Winner of the Choice Top 100 Title in 2004 for Breaking the Rule of Cool and in 2007 for Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
• Specialist Reader: PMLA, College Literature, and Journal of Western Literature
• Founding director of the Program in Writing at The College of Wooster
• Modern Language Association
• International James Joyce Society
• Founding member of the Beat Studies Association

Publications

• The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature (Mellen, 1995)
• Co-editor of Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (Rutgers, 2002)
• Co-author of Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Beat Women Writers (UP Mississippi, 2004)
• Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave-Macmillan - clothe, 2007; paper 2009)
• Publisher and editor of 681 Lexington Avenue: A Beat Education in New York City 1947-1945 by Elizabeth Von Vogt (Greater Midwest Publishing, 2008)
• Editor of the Beat Review (2007-2011)

Research Interests

Grant administrator for the Five Colleges of Ohio Teagle Foundation-funded project to assess Critical and Creative Thinking in the Liberal Arts (2006-09)