Professor of English, Assessment Coordinator and Chair of the Department
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8721

E-mail: WoodsR@ripon.edu

Education

• AB, Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley

Awards and Honors

• May Bumby Severy Award for excellence in teaching, 1995 and 1998

Areas of Interest

• Narrative
• Traditional oral literature
• Victorian literature
• Popular literature, especially crime

Recent Publications

• "'It Was the Mark of Cain': Agatha Christie and the Murder of the Mystery," in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction.
• "'His Appearance Is Against Him': The Emergence of the Detective," in The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literary Theory.

Current Courses Taught

• Romanticism
• History of the Novel
• Literature and Composition
• Literature of Sport
• Literary Criticism
• Women's Literature
• Foundations of English Literature
• Major Author: Toni Morrison
• Senior Seminar: Narrative