English Faculty

Neil Carpathios -
(330) 263-2157 / ncarpathios@wooster.edu

Daniel Bourne - Professor of English
(330) 263-2332)/ dbourne@wooster.edu

B.A., M.F.A. Indiana 1979, 1987.

Daniel Bourne, professor of English at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1988, is active in contemporary American literature, Polish literature and culture, and writing with a strong sense of place, especially creative nonfiction involving the environment.

Bourne received his B.A. in comparative literature and history (1979) and his M.F.A. (1987) in creative writing from Indiana University. The recipient of four poetry fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, most recently in 2004-2005, he has published two books of poetry: The Household Gods and Where No One Spoke the Language. He has also contributed poems to American Poetry Review, Field, Ploughshares, Salmagundi, and others.

Bourne was a Fulbright research fellow to Poland in 1985-87, and has published a collection of his translations of the poetry and essays of Polish political writer Tomasz Jastrun: On the Crossroads of Asia and Europe. Other translations from Polish appear in Partisan Review, Northwest Review, and Colorado Review. As founding editor of the literary journal Artful Dodge, he was awarded the 1992 Ohioiana Library Association's Award for Editorial Excellence.

Joanne Frye - Professor of English
(330) 263-2471 / jfrye@wooster.edu

B.A. Bluffton 1966; Ph.D. Indiana 1974.

Joanne S. Frye is a professor of English and women's studies at The College of Wooster, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1976. She is a graduate of Bluffton College (1966) and earned her Ph.D. at Indiana University (1974).

Frye specializes in 20th century British and American Literature, feminist literary criticism, and women’s studies, with particular attention to interdisciplinary analysis of motherhood and narrative forms for women's experiences. She is the author of two books: Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and The Novel In Contemporary Experience and Tillie Olsen: A Study Of The Short Fiction. She has recently completed a book-length manuscript, titled, Biting The Moon: A Single Mother’s Memoir, and is currently investigating narrative forms for maternal subjectivity in memoirs and novels by mother-writers. She also continues her scholarly interest in the novels of Virginia Woolf.

Frye has received numerous honors and awards, including the Luce Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award and the Alice and Edith Hamilton Prize, a manuscript award from The University of Michigan Press, Women and Culture Series.

Nancy Grace - Professor of English
(330) 263-2472 / ngrace@wooster.edu

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

Nancy M. Grace is a professor of English and former director of the Program in Writing at The College of Wooster, where she has been a member of the faculty in 1987. She specializes in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, 20th-century British literature, women's studies, and rhetoric and composition.

Grace received her B.A. from Otterbein College (1973) and her M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1987) from The Ohio State University.

An authority on Beat literature, James Joyce, and gender, Grace is the author of The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature, co-editor of Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, and co-author of Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Beat Women Writers. Her most recent book is Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination.

Grace is a member of the Modern Language Association, the International James Joyce Society, and a founding member of the Beat Studies Association.

Peter L. Havholm - Professor of English
(320) 263-2506 / phavholm@wooster.edu

B.A. Shimer 1962; M.S., Ph.D. Connecticut 1970, 1972.

Peter L. Havholm is a professor of English at The College of Wooster, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1971. He has expertise in Rudyard Kipling's fiction and Victorian British India, technology in higher education, literary criticism, technology in higher education in the classroom, and literary criticism.

Havholm received his B.A. from Shimer College (1962). After graduation, he taught public school in Houston and then served in the United States Navy for four years. He earned his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) in English from the University of Connecticut.

A member of the Modern Language Association, the Kipling Society, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Havholm has published articles on the use of technology in the classroom (most co-authored with his colleague Larry Stewart) and on Rudyard Kipling’s fiction. Politics and Awe in Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction, a book showing the influence on Kipling’s art and life of his youthful engagement in political battles in British India, will be published in 2007. He has also published (with his student Phil Sandifer) “Corporate Authorship: A Response to Jerome Christensen” in Critical Inquiry.

Havholm is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a recipient of the University of Connecticut Dissertation Fellowship. With Larry Stewart, he has won the Sears Award for Innovation in Teaching and the EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Award for Distinguished Curricular Innovation.

Jennifer Hayward - Professor of English
(320) 263-2397 / jhayward@wooster.edu

B.A. Wesleyan 1983; M.A. San Francisco State 1987; Ph.D. Princeton 1992.

Jennifer Poole Hayward is a professor of English at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1992. Hayward’s interests include women’s travel literature, 19th century British literature, postcolonial literature, and creative writing. She also offers a unique perspective on modern-day soap operas and their roots in 19th century serialized novels.

A member of the British Women Writers Conference, the Modern Language Association, and the steering committee for the International Society for Travel Writing, Hayward is the author of Consuming Fictions: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soaps (voted a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1998), as well as editor of Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in Chile. She also authored articles on women’s travel writing, colonialism, and African-American literature.

Hayward’s academic awards include the Hyde Fellowship for Research Abroad (1990-91); an ACLS Travel Grant (1996); and an NEH Summer Seminar (1997). She is also conversant in French and Spanish.

William J. Macauley - Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing
(330) 263-2372 / wmacauley@wooster.edu

B.S. Grand Valley 1986; M.A. Pittsburg State 1988; Ph.D. Indiana 1999.

Bill Macauley is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing at The College of Wooster. He earned his degrees in English from Grand Valley State University (B.S., Creative Writing, 1986), Pittsburg State University (M.A., Literature, 1988) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., Rhetoric and Linguistics, 1999).         

Macauley’s teaching began in 1987 in an intensive English program for non?]native speakers. After five years as an adjunct at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Community College, and Aquinas College, he completed his Ph.D. and worked as Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director at Purdue University Calumet (1998?]2001). For the next four years, he was an Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director at Mount Union College.       

Macauley and Nicholas Mauriello are co?]editors of Marginal Words, Marginal Work? Tutoring the Academy in the Work of Writing Centers, which is due out summer 2007. He is currently a Managing Editor of WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and Open Words: Access and English Studies, a member of the CCCC Committee on the Roles of Faculty Status and Teaching Conditions in Academic Quality, serves on the Executive Board of the International Writing Centers Association, is an ongoing consultant to the East Central Writing Centers Association, and a founding member of the Northeast Ohio Writing Centers Association.

Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast - Visiting Assistant Professor of English
(330) 263-2617 / mprendergast@wooster.edu

B.A. Yale 1977; M.A., Ph.D. Virginia 1983, 1990.

Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast specializes in early modern English, European, and Caribbean Literatures, with particular emphasis in gender studies, cultural studies, and aesthetics. She earned her B.A. at Yale University (1977) and her M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1990) from the University of Virginia. She is the author of Renaissance Fantasies: the Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction (2000). She has also published articles on Shakespeare, Boccaccio, and Sir Philip Sidney, as well as on early modern prose, poetry and drama. She is currently working on a book-length project, titled "'Speak and Be Hang'd': the Anti-Aesthetics of Early Modern Plays and Pamphlets."

Thomas Prendergast - Associate Professor of English
(330) 263-2347 / tprendergast@wooster.edu

B.A. Marquette 1981; M.A., Ph.D. Virginia 1984, 1992.

Thomas Prendergast is an associate professor of English at The College of Wooster, where he joined the faculty in 1997. He specializes in Old and Middle English Literature, and Theories of Medievalism.

Prendergast earned his B.A. from Marquette University (1981). He went on to earn his M.A. (1984) and his Ph.D. (1992) from the University of Virginia.

Prendergast is the author of Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus (2004), and the co-editor of Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (1999). Current projects include a work tentatively titled England's National Plot: The Secret History of Poet's Corner and a book on the theory of medievalism, being jointly written with Stephanie Trigg of the University of Melbourne.

Debra Shostak - Professor of English
(330) 263-2402 / dshostak@wooster.edu

B.A. Carleton 1975; M.A., Ph.D. Wisconsin 1977, 1985.

Debra Shostak is a professor of English at The College of Wooster and a member of the faculty since 1987. She specializes in 20th century fiction, 19th century American literature, and film. 

Shostak earned her B.A. from Carleton College (1975) and then received her M.A. (1977) and her Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The author of Philip Roth Countertext, Counterlives (2004), Shostak has also published essays on such contemporary writers as Paul Auster, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Irving. Her work has appeared in critical anthologies and professional journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and Critique.

A member of the Modern Language Association and the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Shostak serves as a consulting editor for Philip Roth Studies and a specialist reader for MELUS, The Journal of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.

Larry Stewart - Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Language and Literature and Professor of Education
(330) 263-2412 / lstewart@wooster.edu

B.A. Simpson 1963; M.A., Ph.D. Case Western Reserve 1964, 1971.

Larry L. Stewart is the Mildred Foss Thompson Professor of English Language and Literature and professor of education at The College of Wooster, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1967. He specializes in 18th century literature, the novel, and children’s literature.

Stewart earned his B.A. at Simpson College (1963) and his M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1971) at Case Western Reserve University. Co-author of A Guide to Literary Criticism and Research, he began using computers in the teaching and study of literature in the mid-1980s and, with colleague Peter Havholm, and developed several computer applications for undergraduate literature courses. In addition, he and Havholm won the Sears Award for Innovation in Teaching and the EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Award for Distinguished Curricular Innovation.

More recently, Stewart has been using methods of computational stylistics for the study of narrative voice in 18th century British and American fiction. He is the author of several articles in this area, including “Empirical Analysis, Gender Assumptions, and the Language of Narration in 18th century British Fiction” and "Charles Brockden Brown: Quantitative Analysis and Literary Interpretation."

Karl J. Woelz - Visiting Assistant Professor of English
(330) 263-2488 / kwoelz@wooster.edu

B.A. Columbia 1985; M.A. Texas, San Antonio 1991; Ph.D. Kansas 1997.

Karl Woelz is the Walter D. Foss Visiting Assistant Professor of English at The College of Wooster, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2005. His areas of expertise include the history of the novel in England and the U.S., early 20th Century American Literature, and the work of Margaret Atwood. He also conducts writing workshops in short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction/memoir.

He received his B.A. from Columbia University (1985), his M.A. from The University of Texas at San Antonio (1991), and his Ph.D. from The University of Kansas (1997).

Prior to Wooster, Woelz was a visiting professor of English at Shippensburg University, Towson University, and Goucher College.

Woelz is the editor of two anthologies of contemporary short fiction and winner of several awards, including the 2000 Lambda Literary Award. His short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in more than a dozen books, journals, and newspapers. His short stories have been optioned for the screen by several film producers, including HBO Pictures.