Carol Ann Bays

Professor
Ph.D., Comparative Literature
Wayne State University
cbays@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

• World Literature: Non-Western, Japanese
• 19th and 20th Century American  Literature
• Modernism
• Critical Thinking

Dr. Carol Ann Bays (Candy) began teaching at NMU in 1976. Having spent several years as an undergraduate in Tokyo, Japan, she then majored in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Michigan (BA), English at North Texas State University (MA), and Comparative Literature at Wayne State University (PhD). Her interests have always been global: looking for connections among cultures, in particular between East and West. In recent years her research has focused on pedagogy; she has presented several papers on the role of world literature in the undergraduate curriculum (ACLA, MMLA) and has experimented here at NMU with interdisciplinary course models. After serving the NMU/AAUP Chapter as grievance officer and chief negotiator in the 80's, followed by several terms on the Marquette County Board in the early 90's, she now serves as an Arbitrator on the Panel of the American Arbitration Association and regularly hears cases involving labor-management disputes.