Nancy L. Bunge

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Nancy Bunge graduated with honors from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied Philosophy. She then won an MA in England Literature from the University of Chicago and a PhD in American Literature at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She taught at George Washington University for five years while writing her dissertation and at Michigan State University for 45 years, becoming a Professor there and winning two teaching awards. She also held senior Fulbright lectureships at the University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels (French version), the University of Ghent, and the University of Siegen. She spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School. In 2015, she won an award from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature for her work on Midwestern Literature. She has published seven books and a hundred articles and book chapters on subjects as various as Midwestern Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clarence Major, Diane Wakoski, Kei Miller, missionaries to the indigenous Ojibwe, the Mississippi River and the ways a variety of authors teach and work.