Nancy Bunge was born and grew up in Wisconsin. She received her AB with honors from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) where she majored in Philosophy. She received her MA from the University of Chicago in English Literature. And she holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A Professor at Michigan State University, she teaches primarily interdisciplinary general education courses and has won two teaching awards. She has also held Fulbright lectureships at The University of Vienna, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Ghent and the University of Siegen. She spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School. She has published over 75 contributions to books and periodicals, including work in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, THE WASHINGTON POST, POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE and THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE.
