Curriculum Vitae Mary Beth Pringle

Wright State University

Professor of English
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio 45435
937-775-2265
937-885-3440

marybeth.pringle@wright.edu


EducationHonors and AwardsEditorial AppointmentsAcademic PositionsCourses TaughtSelected Corporate ConsultanciesAreas of SpecializationService to Wright State Recent Biographical ListingsBibliographyTheses DirectedMemberships in and Key Service to Professional Organizations
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EDUCATION:

B.A. Psychology, English University of Denver 1964
M.A. English University of Denver 1967
Ph.D. English University of Minnesota 1977

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

University of Denver 1966-67
Southwest Missouri State University 1967-69
Iowa State University 1969-72
University of Minnesota 1972-75

Wright State University

  • Instructor
  • Assistant Professor
  • Director of Writing Programs and Assistant Chairperson
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor
  • Interim Director, Women's Center/Women's Studies
1975-present

University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea

  • Visiting Lecturer

F1997, S2002

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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Women's Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature; Business, Technical, and Professional Writing

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

BOOKS:

Cover: Sex Roles in LiteratureCover: The Image of a Prostitute in Modern Literature Cover: J. Grisham: A Critical Companion  Cover: Approaches to Teaching V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Sex Roles in Literature (ed. with Anne Stericker), New York: Longman, 1980.

The Image of the Prostitute in Modern Literature (ed. with Pierre Horn), New York: Ungar, 1984.

John Grisham: A Critical Companion, Hartford: Greenwood, 1997. Reprinted in Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Electronic Media, 1999. 

Approaches to Teaching Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (ed. with Beth Rigel Daughterty), New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.

Revisiting John Grisham: A Critical Companion, Hartford: Greenwood, (under contract).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS:

"Dialogue and Narration in James Joyce's Ulysses" (with Donald Ross, Jr.), Computing in the Humanities: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing in the Humanities, eds. Serge Lusignan and John S. North, Waterloo: Waterloo P (August 1977), 73-84.

"Leonie Adams," American Women Writers: From Colonial Times to the Present,1, New York: Ungar, 1979, 16-18.

"Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman," American Women Writers: From Colonial Times to the Present,1, New York: Ungar, 1979, 260-262.

"Hungry to Talk: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching To the Lighthouse," (with Beth Rigel Daughterty), Virginia Woolf Miscellanies: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, eds. Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow-Turk, New York: Pace, 1992, 203-07.

"Killing the House of the Angels: Spatial Poetics in Woolf's To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf Emerging Perspectives: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, eds. Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow. New York: Pace, 1993, 306-12.

"Paracanons and Sacred Texts: Reading Memoir/Reading Woolf," Virginia Woolf Texts and Contexts: Selected Papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, eds. Beth Rigel Daughterty and Eileen Barrett, New York: Pace, 1996, 223-228.

"The Partner," Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers, CD-ROM. Westport, CT: 1999."The Brethren," Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers, CD-ROM, Westport, CT: 2000.

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ARTICLES:

"Beckett's Molloy: A Detective Novel," Essays in Literature, 2:2, 1974, 11-33.

"Myth and Ms.: Entrapment and Liberation in Monique Wittig's Les Guerilleres," The International Fiction Review, 3:1, 1976, 47-51. Portions reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 22, 476-477.

"The Androgyny Quandary," Women Speaking (London), April-June 1977, 4-7.

"Some Uses of a Feminist Approach to Literature," National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, lxiii, Winter 1978, 30-32.

"From Richmond to a Home Where the Whooping Cranes Roam: Sissy Hankshaw's Quest in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, 4:3 1978-79, 237-252.

"La Poetique de l'espace in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper,'" The French-American Review, 3:1-2, 1980, 15-22. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, 9, 1983, 110-112.

"Modesty Blaise: Fantasy Heroine," Cartonnaggio: A Journal of Bildegraphics, 3:10, 1980, 1-9.

"Funfersum: Dialogue as Metafictional Technique in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly, 18:4, Summer 1981, 397-416.

"(Auto)Biography: Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives," The International Fiction Review, 9:2, Summer 1982, 138-41.

"A Lesson in Tradition: Katherine Anne Porter's 'Holiday,'" Sargasso, 1:1, 1984, 36-45.

"Butor's Room Without a View: The Train Compartment in La Modification," Review of Contemporary Fiction, 5:3, Fall 1985, 112-118.

"Demystifying Feminist Criticism: A Response," (with Judi Roller and Jennifer Smith), Antioch Review, 44:2, 1986, 231-241.

"Fictions in Fiction: Henriette and Cecile in Michel Butor's A Change of Heart," The International Fiction Review, 16:1, Winter 1989, 26-31.

"Mythical Machines and the Teaching of Technical Writing," The Technical Writing Teacher, xvii:1, Winter 1990, 69-75.

"The Female Spirit of Northern Exposure's Cecily, Alaska," The Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, 24, 1996, 37-50.

In addition, nearly 200 papers, reviews, abstracts, notes on topics in modern/contemporary literature, women's studies, and writing. Also manuals, handbooks, technical and professional articles, annual reports, policies and procedures, brochures, instructions, direct mail sales materials, advertising copy, letters, resumes, proposals, press releases.

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HONORS AND AWARDS:

Grant NDEA (English) University of Denver 1965-67
Comprehensive Exam in English University of Denver 1966
Fellowship Foundation for Economic Education 1971
Research Grant University of Minnesota 1975
Phi Kappa Phi University of Minnesota 1976
Outstanding Teaching Wright State College of Liberal Arts 1980
Research Grants Wright State College of Liberal Arts 1977, 78 ,79, 80, 82, 85, 86, 88, 89 (3), 93, 95 ,96, 97(2), 98(2), 99; 2001, 02
Presidential Award for Excellence in Professional Service Wright State University 1987
Teaching Award Ohio Child Welfare Training Program 1988
Presidential Award for Excellence in Professional Teaching Wright State University 1990
Women's Studies Mini-Grant Award Wright State University 1997

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COURSES TAUGHT:

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Literature
Topics in Women's Studies through Literature
Survey and Introductory Courses in Literature
Topics in Writing

SERVICE AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY:

Numerous committees at every level

THESES DIRECTED:

Sixteen Theses directed

EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS:

Numerous

SELECTED CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENTAL CONSULTANCIES:

Numerous (More than 700 seminars and workshops nationally and internationally)

RECENT BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS:

Who's Who in America
Contemporary Authors
Who's Who of American Women

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages, National Women's Studies Association, James Joyce Foundation, Virginia Woolf Society, Popular Culture Association, Society for Technical Communication, Phi Kappa Phi, American Association of University Professors, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature

KEY SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Modern Language Association
Midwest Modern Language Association
Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages

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