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NANCY L. BUNGE
Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2562 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
interests: writing; American literature; Jungian psychology; religion and philosophy, especially Paul Tillich
course: WRA 140 Writing: Women in America
Nancy Bunge's research and teaching cover a broad spectrum. She has been researching the writing process and the teaching of writing for twenty-five years and has published three books on the subject; most recently, Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers (University of Iowa Press, 2005) which The Writer Magazine called a "treasure trove of writerly advice." Her earlier interview collection, Finding the Words: Conversations with Writers Who Teach (Swallow/Ohio, 1985) was "noted with pleasure" by The New York Times Book Review. She is also the editor of Conversations with Clarence Major (University Press of Mississippi), a book praised by Booklist and The African-American Review. But she also does content research on literary and historical topics and is the author of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a Study of the Short Fiction (Macmillan 1993). She has published or had accepted for publication almost 40 contributions to periodicals, including The Washington Post, ATQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, The Writer's Chronicle, Walt Whitman Review, and Poets & Writers Magazine and 25 book chapters on subjects such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, and Wendy Wasserstein.
Her current teaching includes a course called "The American Dream and the Reality" which she is offering as a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Siegen in Germany. In Germany, she will also teach a course on American Environmental Writing and another on the connection between the way American writers work and what they write; she will also interview European writers. At MSU, in the WRAC department she has taught Women in America in recent years, but hopes to teach the Evolution of American Thought in the future. In the IAH department, she teaches a course on the creative process, another course called Myths and Dreams and yet another course called Philosophy in Literature. She plans to propose new IAH courses on the American Dream and on the Midwest. In 2005, she won the Fintz award for "excellence in teaching the arts and humanities" from IAH.
Her other awards have included two earlier Fulbright lectureships, one at the University of Vienna in Austria (she was the first woman to hold this post) and another in Belgium at the Free University of Brussels and at the University of Ghent. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation invited to a two-week workshop on interdisciplinary teaching held at Princeton. She has also been selected to participate in a seminar on Jung and Freud and an Institute on Emerson, both sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She spent her 2003-2004 sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. And Michigan State University gave her the Teacher-Scholar Award for "dedication to and excellence in undergraduate teaching."
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