{"id":17778,"date":"2012-12-04T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=17778"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T19:15:05","slug":"english-professor-named-one-of-daytons-ten-top-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/12\/04\/english-professor-named-one-of-daytons-ten-top-women\/","title":{"rendered":"English professor named one of Dayton\u2019s Ten Top Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Photo<\/a>

Mary Beth Pringle, Ph.D., teaches a wide variety of courses including introductory English, writing, contemporary fiction and women\u2019s studies.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State University professor Mary Beth Pringle has been named one of the Ten Top Women of 2012 by the Dayton Daily News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Each year since 1962, the Dayton Daily News<\/em> has recognized 10 women who are leaders in the Dayton community and contribute their time and talent for the greater good. The Ten Top Women of 2012 were recognized at a Dayton Daily News\u2013<\/em>hosted luncheon on Dec. 4 at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a thrill to be named to the Dayton Daily News <\/em>Ten Top Women Class of 2012,\u201d said Pringle. \u201c<\/em>It\u2019s gratifying to be reminded that the community values the important day-to-day work we do at Wright State.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Pringle teaches a wide variety of courses including introductory English, writing, contemporary fiction and women\u2019s studies.<\/p>\n

She contributed to the establishment of the Wright State Women\u2019s Studies program and the university\u2019s Women\u2019s Center. She also chaired a research project that helped bring salary equality to female faculty in comparison to their male peers.<\/p>\n

The group of Pringle\u2019s colleagues who nominated her for the Ten Top Women said she has made \u201cwide-ranging and profoundly influential contributions . . . to improving the lives of women in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pringle is the author of Sex Roles in Literature<\/em>, The Image of the Prostitute in Modern Literature, John Grisham: A Critical Companion, Approaches to Teaching Virginia Woolf\u2019s \u2018To the Lighthouse\u2019<\/em> and Revisiting John Grisham: A Critical Companion<\/em>, along with numerous book chapters and scholarly articles.<\/p>\n

Pringle has taught English at Wright State since 1975. She taught previously at the University of Denver, Southwest Missouri State University, Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology and a master\u2019s degree in English from the University of Denver.<\/p>\n

In addition to Pringle, two of this year\u2019s Ten Top Women have Wright State connections. Connie Muncy graduated from the university with a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry and Katherine Platoni, Psy.D., serves as a clinical\/voluntary faculty member for the School of Professional Psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Beth Pringle, Ph.D., teaches a wide variety of courses including introductory English, writing, contemporary fiction and women\u2019s studies. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":17779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,724,2023,711,725,4863,747,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-awards","category-faculty","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130224,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions\/130224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}