William F. Woods, Professor of English, grew up in New York, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B.), served in the US Navy (USS Saratoga
CVA-60), earned his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and taught at Cleveland State
University. After returning to graduate study at Indiana University, he was granted
the Ph.D. in Medieval English Literature in 1975, and accepted an appointment as Assistant
Professor of English at Wichita State University, where he has since offered courses
in medieval literature (he is a Chaucer specialist), classical literature, the history
of rhetoric, the folktale, the history of the English language, and various other
subjects. Prof. Woods is currently the coordinator of the Medieval and Renaissance
Studies Certificate Program in Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and
his book, Chaucerian Spaces: The Poetics of Space in Chaucers Opening Tales, will be published by the State University of New York Press in December 2007.
Contact William Woods at william.woods@wichita.edu