Mary Beth Pringle
Professor of English
WrightStateUniversity
Dayton, Ohio45435
(937) 775-2265 (o)
(937) 885-3440 (h)
EDUCATION:
B.A.Psychology, English, University of Denver, 1964.
M.A.English, University of Denver, 1967.
Ph.D.English, University of Minnesota, 1977. Areas of Concentration: Women's Studies, Modern/Contemporary Literature. Dissertation: "More Shards from the Cracked Looking Glass of Art: Dialogue and Narration in James Joyce's Ulysses." Dissertation Director: Chester A. Anderson.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
University of Denver
Teaching Assistant1966 - 67
SouthwestMissouriStateUniversity
Instructor1967 - 69
IowaStateUniversity
Instructor 1969 - 72
University of Minnesota
Teaching Assistant1972 – 73
Teaching Associate1973 - 75
WrightStateUniversity
Instructor1975 – 76
Assistant Professor1976 – 80
Director of Writing Programs and Assistant
Chair, Department of English1980 – 82
Associate Professor1980 – 86
Professor1986 – Present
Interim Director, Women's Center/
Women's Studies 1992-94
Affiliate Professor of Women’s Studies 1999-present
University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea
Visiting Lecturer Fall 1997
Spring 2002
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Women's Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature; Business, Technical, and Professional Writing.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1.BOOKS:
1.1Sex Roles in Literature (ed.with Ann Stericker). New York: Longman, 1980.
1.2The Image of the Prostitute in Modern Literature (ed. with Pierre Horn). New York: Ungar, 1984.
1.3John Grisham: A Critical Companion. Hartford: Greenwood P, 1997. Reprinted in Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. CD-ROM. Westport, CT: Greenwood Electronic Media, 1999.
1.4Approaches to Teaching Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (ed. with Beth Rigel Daugherty). New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.
1.5Revisiting John Grisham: A Critical Companion. Hartford: Greenwood P (under contract).
2.CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS:
2.1"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 Press (August 1977), 73-84.
2.2"Léonie Adams," American Women Writers: From ColonialTimes to the Present, Vol. 1, New York: Ungar, 1979, 16-18.
2.3"Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman," American Women Writers, New York: Ungar, 1979, Vol. 1, 260-262.
2.4"Hungry To Talk: A Roundtable Discussion of Teaching To the Lighthouse," (with Beth Rigel Daugherty), Virginia Woolf Miscellanies: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, eds. Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow-Turk, New York: PaceUniversity Press (1992), 203-07.
2.5"Killing the House of the Angel: 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: PaceUniversity Press, 1993. 306-312.
2.6"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 Daugherty and Eileen Barrett New York: PaceUniversity Press (1996), 223-228.
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1.6“The Partner,” Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. CD-Rom. Westport, CT: Greenwood,1999.
1.7“The Brethren,” Critical Companions to Popular
Contemporary Writers. CD-Rom. Westport, CT:
Greenwood,2000.
3.ARTICLES:
3.1"Beckett's Molloy: As Detective Novel," Essays in Literature, Vol. 2, No. 2, (1974), 11-33.
3.2"Myth and Ms.: Entrapment and Liberation in Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères," The International Fiction Review, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1976), 47-51. Portions reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 22, 476-477.
3.3"The Androgyny Quandary," Women Speaking (London) (April-June 1977), 4-7.
3.4"Some Uses of a Feminist Approach to Literature," National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, Vol. LXIII (Winter 1978), 30-32.
3.5"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, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1978-79), 237-252.
3.6"La Poétique de l' espace in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper,'" The French-American Review, Vol. III, Nos. 1 and 2 (1980), 15-22. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 9 (1983), 110-112.
3.7"Modesty Blaise: Fantasy Heroine," Cartonaggio: A Journal of Bildegraphics, Vol. 3, No. 10 (1980), 1-9.
3.8"Funfersum: Dialogue as Metafictional Technique in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Summer 1981), 397-416.
3.9"(Auto)biography: Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives," The International Fiction Review, Vol. 9, No 2 (Summer 1982), 138-141.
3.10"A Lesson in Tradition: Katherine Anne Porter's 'Holiday,'" Sargasso (San Juan), Vol. 1, No. 1 (1984), 36-45.
3.11"Butor's Room Without a View: The Train Compartment in La Modification," R*eview of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall 1985), 112-118.
3.12"De-mystifying Feminist Criticism: A Response," (with Judi Roller and Jennifer Smith), Antioch Review, Vol. 44, No. 2 (1986), 231-241.
3.13"Fictions in Fiction: Henriette and Cécile in Michel Butor's A Change of Heart," The International Fiction Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1989), 26-31.
3.14"Mythical Machines and the Teaching of Technical Writing," The Technical Writing Teacher, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Winter 1990),69-75.
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ARTICLES (Cont.)
3.15"The Female Spirit of Northern Exposure's Cecily, Alaska" The Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the
Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Vol. 3 (1994), 34-39.
3.16"On a Jet Plane: Jadine's Search for Identity in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby." Midwestern Miscellany, Vol.24 (1996), 37-50.
3.17"A Girl Thing: Gathering at Mall of America," Minnesota Women's Press (Forthcoming).
4.PRINTED INTERVIEWS:
4.1“Fogdog Lunch Date with Dr. Pringle.” The Fogdog Review (Fall 1998/Winter 1999), 26-38.
5.SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
5.1."Myth and Ms.: Entrapment and Liberation in Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères," Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis), November 5, 1974.
5.2Discussant. "Butor's Didacticism," Modern Language Association (New York), December 27, 1974.
5.3"The Woman Androgyne: Jung, Jong's Isadora, and the Androgyny Debate," Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), November 5, 1975.
5.4"Awakening Albia: Feminist Mythologies Beyond Androgyny," Modern Language Association (San Francisco), December 27, 1975.
5.5"The Style(s) of James Joyce's Ulysses," Fourth International Symposium of Computing in Literary and Linguistic Research (Oxford, U.K.), April 7, 1976. (In absentia).
5.6Discussant. "Mythology of Women," Pioneers for Century III (Cincinnati), April 23, 1976.
5.7"Androgyny," Conference on the Changing Roles of Women in American Society (Shimer College, Illinois), May 1, 1976.
5.8Chairperson. "Women's Biography and Diaries," Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis), November 6, 1976.
5.9"In Defense of, Among Others, the Psychoanalytical Approach to Joyce," International James Joyce Symposium (Dublin, Ireland), June 15, 1977.
5.10"Dialogue and Narration in Joyce's Ulysses" (with Donald Ross, Jr.), Conference on Computing in the Humanities (Waterloo), Ontario, Canada), August 4, 1977.
5.11"'Poetic Space' in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,'" Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), October 28, 1977.
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Cont.):
5.12"Joycean Games: Narrative Filters in the 'Cyclops' Episode of Ulysses," Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), October 29, 1977.
5.13"From Richmond to a Home Where the Whooping Cranes Roam: Sissy Hankshaw's Quest in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," Modern Language Association (Chicago), December 29, 1977.
5.14"Butor's Room Without a View: The Train Compartment in La Modification," Twentieth-Cent©ury Literature Conference (Louisville), February 24, 1978.
5.15"Modesty Blaise: Mythic Heroine," Popular Culture Association (Cincinnati), April 20, 1978.
5.16Chairperson. "Open Forum on Rites of Passage for Women," Popular Culture Association (Pittsburgh), April 28, 1979.
5.17Chairperson (with Pierre Horn), "The Image of the Prostitute in Literature," Interdisciplinary Approaches to Feminism Colloquium, CUNYGraduateCenter (New York), May 3, 1979.
5.18"Funfersum: Dialogue as Metafictional Technique in the Cyclops Episode of Joyce's Ulysses," Conference on Computing in the Humanities (DartmouthCollege), August 21, 1979. This paper was also accepted for presentation at the Seventh International James Joyce Symposium (Zurich, Switzerland), June 1979.
5.19Discussant. "Tom Robbins and Nietzsche," Midwest Modern Language Association (Indianapolis), November 9, 1979.
5.20"An Interdisciplinary Journey: Teaching 'Women and the Quest in American Fiction,"' (with Charles Senn Taylor), Midwest Modern Language Association (Indianapolis), November 9, 1979.
5.21Discussant. "From Postmodernism to Metafiction: A Response," Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis), November 7, 1980.
5.22"Women'sD Studies in the Business Writing Classroom: An Exercise in Audience Analysis," (with Linda Faust), Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis), November 8, 1980.
5.23Chairperson. "The Making of Masterpieces: The Sociology
of the Literary Canon in Twentieth-Century America," Modern Language Association (Houston), December 27, 1980.
5.24"Women's Quests in American Fiction," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (Louisville), February 28, 1981.
5.25"Marguerite Yourcenar as Literary Critic: Introduction to her Translation of The Waves." Modern Language Association (New York), December 28, 1981.
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Cont.):
5.26Chairperson. "Cultural Divergence in Literary Production and Consumption: Three Case Studies," Modern Language Association, Dece´mber 28, 1981.
5.27"A Lesson in Tradition: Katherine Anne Porter's 'Holiday,'" Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (Louisville), February 25, 19
5.28"English Department Faculty as Writing Laboratory Tutors" (with Cindy Shearer), Writing Centers Association Conference (Columbus), May 1, 1982.
5.29Chairperson. "Modern Literature: Non-Fiction," Midwest Modern Language Association (Cincinnati), November 5, 1982.
5.30"Aesthetics of Indirection and Replacement in Patricia Hampl's A Romantic Education (with Cynthia L.Shearer)
Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis), November 5, 1983.
5.31"February 1, 1984: Portrayals of Women in the Contemporary American Cinema," (with Linda Brown), Popular Culture Association Convention (Toronto), March 31, 1984.
5.32"Come on Down: Positioning of Women on Television Game Shows" (with Linda Brown and Cindy Shearer), Popular Culture Association (Louisville),Ë April 3, 1985.
5.33Discussant. "On the Social Edge: The Reader and 'Relevance,'" Conference: On the Social Edge: The Writer, The Reader, and the Real, University of Minnesota Conference (Minneapolis), April 25, 1985.
5.34Discussant. "Women Travelers in 19th-Century Popular Literature," Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis), November 9, 1985.
5.35Chairperson. "Food and its Function in Popular Literature," Popular Culture Association (Atlanta), April 3, 1986.
5.36"Probing Mind Prober: Male Bias in Psychological Analysis By Computer," Popular Culture Association (Atlanta), April 5, 1986.
5.37"Alices in Wonderland: Female Images in Arcade and Arcade-Style Computer Games," Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), November 7, 1986.
5.38"Mythical Machines and the Teaching of Technical Writing," Popular Culture Association (Montreal), March 26, 1987.
5.39Chairperson (with Beth Rigel Daugherty). "Feminist Critical Approaches to Toni Morrison's Ta˚r Baby," Midwest Modern Language Association (Columbus), November 13, 1987 (session one) and November 14, 1987 (session two).
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Cont.):
5.40"Fictions in Fiction: Henriette and Cécile in Michel Butor's A Change of Heart, Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures (Winter Park), February 27, 1988.
5.41"'Anything to Avoid the 7:00 p.m. Sunday Time Slot'" Moonlighting's Metafiction," (with Cindy Shearer and Jennifer Smith), Popular Culture Association (New Orleans), March 24, 1988.
5.42"'Colors, moisture, heat, enough blue in the air': Two Journeys Toward Freedom in Joan Didion's Democracy," Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis), November 5, 1988
5.43"Jadine's Quest: The Conflict Between Race and Gender in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby," Twentieth Century Literature Conference (Louisville), February 23, 1989.
5.44"What You See And What You Get: Exploring the Relationship Between Writing TheorÁy and Brochure Design," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), College English Association (Orlando), April 7, 1989.
5.45Discussant. "The Challenge of Readings of Assent: A Response," Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis) November 2, 1989.
5.46"'Ask her if I'm due to make a trip': Creating a Quest Out of a Kidnapping in Doris Betts' Heading West," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Far West Popular Culture Association (Las Vegas), January 25, 1989.
5.47Chairperson. "Nature--Human and Otherwise," Far West Popular Culture Association (Las Vegas), January 25, 1989.
5.48"What Do They Have to Say?: The Personal and Professional Lives of Women in L.A. Law," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Popular Culture Association (Toronto), March 10, 1990.
5.49"From Castration to Canonization: Jim Burden's Plight and Willa Cather's My Antonia," (with Karen M. Miller), Midwest Modern Language Association (Kansas City), November 1, 1990.
5.50"Where We All Want to Be? The Portrayal of Murp¯hy Brown," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Popular Culture Association (San Antonio), March 27, 1991.
5.51"Seeking the Sacred on the Road: Journeys, Mary Morris' in Nothing to Declare and Mine," Women and Images: Vision and Social Change Conference (Youngstown), May 3, 1991.
5.52"Bridging Now and Then, Us and Them: Using Mary Catherine Bateson's Composing a Life to teach Woolf's To the Lighthouse," First Annual Virginia Woolf Conference (New York), June 8, 1991.
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Cont.):
5.53Chairperson (with Beth Rigel Daugherty), Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf Conference (New York), June 8, 1991.
5.54"Writing A Beautiful Life through Travel: Female Journeys in Modern American Literature," Travel and Discovery: Real and Imaginary (Melbourne, Australia), presented in absentia, July 8, 1991.
5.55"Praisesingers and Pathfinders: Older Female Questers in American Literature," Midwest Modern Language Association (ChicÎago), November 15, 1991.
5.56"Murphy Brown: Media Hero or Postmodern Prop," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), November 16, 1991.
5.57Chairperson, "Teaching Virginia Woolf," Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations Conference (New Haven), June 11-14, 1992.
5.58Chairperson, "Cracking the Safe: Contemporary Women's Memoirs and Their Place in the Canon," Midwest Modern Language Association, November 5, 1992.
5.59"The Body Balanced: The Women of Cicely, Alaska," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Popular Culture Association (New Orleans), April 8, 1993.
5.60Chairperson, "Television: Northern Exposure," Popular Culture Association (New Orleans), April 8, 1993.
5.61"Killing the House of the Angel: Spatial Poetics in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse," Third Annual Virginia Woolf Miscellanies Conference (Jefferson City, Missouri), June 12, 1993.
5.62"A Girl Thing: Gathering at Mall of America," Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneap—olis), November 5, 1993.
5.63Chairperson, "Women's Ways Into Writing: Journals and Journeys," Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis), November 4, 1993.
5.64Chairperson, "Women's Way Into Writing: Collaboration and Community," Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), November 12, 1994.
5.65"Farewell Folsom Prison Types and the Women Who Stood By Them: Doting Family Men and Indifferent Women in Recent Country Music Lyrics," (with Kay Schaffer), Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, (West Virginia), October 29, 1994.
5.66"Two Women and a Friendship: Writing as Collaboration," (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago), November 12, 1994.
5.67"'Possess Me, Jon': Bubblegum Erotica Speaks for Pre-Teen Girls," (with Kay Schaffer), Popular Culture Association (Philadelphia), April 14, 1995.
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SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (Cont.):
5.68"Paracanons and Sacred√ Texts: Reading Memoir/Reading Woolf" The Fifth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference (Columbus), June 17, 1995.
5.69"Guns, Jeans and Cups of Tea: Gender Issues and Cultural Difference in American and British Mystery Novels," Fifth International Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (Oxford, England), July 29, 1995.
5.70Chairperson, "Women's Ways Into Writing: Rites and Rituals," Midwest Modern Language Association (St. Louis), November 4, 1995.
5.71Chairperson, "Women's Ways into Writing: Birthplaces and Backgrounds," Midwest Modern Language Association Minneapolis), November 7, 1996.
5.72"Clues to Culture: The Mystery Novel as Insight into Female Culture" (with Cynthia L. Shearer), Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis), November 7, 1996.
5.73“The Voice of the Female Detective: Speaking as an Act
of Survival in the Contemporary Mystery Novel” (with Cynthia∞ Shearer). Popular Culture Association
(Orlando), April 9, 1998.
5.74“Popular Culture at Sea: Teaching Aboard Semester at Sea’s Universe Explorer.”Popular Culture Association
(Orlando), April 11, 1998.
5.75Invited Participant. Special Session: Teaching Travel Literature.Modern Language Association (San Francisco),December 28, 1998.
5.76“Constructing Travel Memoir: Outer and Inner Langscapes,” Popular Culture Association (San Diego), April 3, 1999.
5.77Chair. “Nonfiction: Writing in the Classroom and the World.” Popular Culture Association (San Diego), April
3, 1999.
6.OTHER PAPERS, LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:
6.1"The Uses of a Feminist Approach to Literature," English Department Colloquium, February 5, 1976.
6.2"The Ten O'clock Slow Train: Anal and Oedipal Fantasies in James Joyce's 'A Painful Case,'" English Department Colloquium, May 11, 1977.
6.3"Literature and Feminism," Conference of the Western Ohio Education Association, October 19, 1977.
6.4"What Women are Saying: Modern/Contemporary Fiction By and About Women," Dayton Chapter Altrusa International, September 26, 1978.
6.5"The Many Faces of Women: Images of our Great-grandmothers in Literature," Ohio Program in the Humanities Lecture, May 16, 1979.
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OTHER PAPERS, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS (Cont.):
6.6"Women on Women: Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Writing," Ohio Program in the Humanities Lecture, May 16, 1979.
6.7"Women's Words: Contemporary Literature by Women," Dayton Women's Club, February 22, 1981.
6.8"Existential Heroines in Detective and Spy Fiction," CentervilleHigh School, January 7, 1982.
6.9"Women's Studies and Women Readers," University of Puerto Rico, November 14, 1983.
6.10"The Value of Problem-Solving Skills in Teaching Business, Technical, and Professional Writing to Non-native Speakers of English," University of Puerto Rico, November 15, 1983.
6.11"Using Problem-Solving Strategies in the 'Text and Production' Course," University of Stockholm (Sweden), October 23, 1984.
6.12"Contemporary Women Authors," The 1985 Engineers and Scientists Week: Spouse Program, The Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton, February 19, 1985.
6.13"Women and Society," Radio Interview (WYSO, Yellow Springs), January 16, 1985.
6.14"Contemporary Women Writers," Fairborn Society of Business and Professional Women, February 25, 1985.
6.15"Sexism in Television Programming," Radio Interview (WLEL, Sandusky), April 21, 1986.
6.16"The Messages of Women Writers," American Association of University Women (Dayton), May 1, 1986.
6.17"The Value of Women's Literary Studies," Dayton-Area
Women Writers' Nexus (Dayton), April 14, 1988.
6.18"Women Readers of Male Writers," Dayton-Area Women Writers' Nexus (Dayton), April 28, 1988.
6.19"Two Still Lives With Fruit: Reading Women's Experience," Dayton-Area Women Writers' Nexus (Dayton), May 12, 1988.
6.20"Images of Women," Panel Discussion, SinclairCommunity College, April 19, 1989.
6.21"When Women Read,” American Association of Female Executives (Dayton), July 19, 1989.
6.22"What You Need to Know about Scientific Writing," Summer Research Internship Program (WrightState University), July 5, 1995.
6.23“Four Tips for Faculty,” Faculty Retreat (WrightState
University, September 16, 1996.
6.24“Telling the Stories of Our Lives,” Burroughs’ Nature
Study Club, March 7, 1997.
6.25“John Masefield’s’Sea Fever,’” Core Lecture Presentation, Semester at Sea Voyage (Vancouver, B.C.-
Kobe, Japan). September 19. 1997
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OTHER PAPERS, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS (Cont.):
6.26“Gerard Manley Hopkins’ ‘The Windhover,’ Emily Dickinson’s ‘Wild Nights –
Wild Nights!’ and Denise
Levertov’s ‘O Taste and See,’” Core Lecture Presentation, Semester at Sea Voyage, (Vancouver B.C.- Kobe, Japan),September 21, 1997.
6.27“Matthew Arnold’s ‘DoverBeach’ and Walt Whitman’s ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astonomer’” Core Lecture