Assistant Professor of English
Web Site
nancy.bunker@maconstate.edu

Dr. Nancy Bunker earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Speech from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She holds a Master of Arts in English from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa. Her core course teaching includes English 1101, 1102, British Literature 2121, 2122, and Introduction to Ethics. She designed two new courses specifically for the CIT program, Mystery and Detective Fiction and Shakespeare and Love.

Dr. Bunker’s essay “Feminine and Fashionable: Regendering the Iconologies of Mary Frith’s Reputation” was awarded Explorations in Renaissance Culture’s Most Distinguished Article of 2005. Her current research explores Renaissance drama’s contribution to Elizabethan views of a legal self identity. Chosen as a 2008 Governor’s Teaching Fellow, Dr. Bunker’s project addresses advancing student literacy through close reading, correct writing, and careful computing.