Christine Wooley Earns Promotion from St. Mary's College of Maryland

St. Mary's College of Maryland announces that Christine Wooley, formerly of Tampa, Florida, has been reappointed with tenure and promoted to associate professor, effective August 1, 2011. Wooley joined the faculty at St. Mary's in 2005. A graduate of Amherst College, her Ph.D. is in English from the University of Washington. She teaches courses in literary criticism and 19th-century American and African-American literatures. Her research focuses on American authors and the relationship between feeling and social change. She is working on a book entitled Literary Reparations: Money, Sympathy, and Agency in Early Twentieth-Century African-American Literature.

St. Mary's College of Maryland, designated the Maryland state honors college in 1992, is ranked one of the best public liberal arts schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. More than 2,000 students attend the college, nestled on the St. Mary's River in Southern Maryland.