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Ms. Joyce Munro |
Joyce Munro was graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with an A.B. in English, a minor in history, and a Michigan Provisional Secondary Teaching Certificate. She then attended the Wayne State University School of Law and received a J.D. degree. She was admitted to practice by the State Bar of Michigan and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She practiced law for twenty-three years in Wayne, Washtenaw, Jackson, and Lenawee Counties, and maintains her memberships. She particularly enjoyed the eight years she worked at the Juvenile Defender Office, once part of the Legal Aid and Defender Association of Detroit, representing abused and neglected infants and children. She contributed the chapter "The Nurse and the Legal System: Dealing with Abused Children" to the nursing textbook Nursing Care of Victims of Family Violence, by Jacqueline Campbell and Janice Humphries (1984).
Ms. Munro received an M.A. in English from Wayne State University, focusing on American and British modernists, with a special interest in folklore and literature. She published her M.A. essay, "The Invisible Made Visible: The Fairy Changeling as a Folk Articulation of Failure to Thrive in Infants and Children," in The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, edited by Peter Narváez (1991 and 1997). In addition, she wrote a critical study of Steinbeck's short story "Flight" and summarized over twenty works of literature for Gale Research. She presented her M.A. essay (above) in Philadelphia, 1989, to the American Folklore Society, and later presented " 'Thus Streets Spin Legends While Wharves Woves Tales': The Tale of the Norwegian Captain as Performing a Metanarrative of Narrative in Finnegans Wake," American Folklore Society, Oakland, CA, 1990, and "Every Parent's Nightmare: Narratives of Baby Switching and Baby Snatching in Popular Magazines Today," American Folklore Society, Jacksonville, FL, 1992. She copy edited Cost/Managerial Accounting (2 Ed.) by Professor F. Y. Stevens, faculty of the College of Management, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, 2003.
Ms. Munro has taught English Composition and Literature at Wayne State University off and on since August 1997. Since January 1999 she has taught classes at Lawrence Tech in English Fundamentals, World Masterpieces 1 and 2, Technical and Professional Communication, American Literature to 1900, Women and Literature, English Literature to 1800, and Writing Workshop. She also taught English Composition (both levels), Honors Composition, and Technical Writing for Engineers from 2002 through 2007 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In addition, she has taught English Composition (both levels), Business Writing, and Technical Writing at off and on at Schoolcraft College From 2002 through 2005.
Ms. Munro is currently Director of English Proficiency at Lawrence Tech, where she continues to teach in the Humanities Department. She enjoys walking, bicycling, studying nature, the environment, water quality, the Tiny House Movement, energy-efficient and sustainable housing, cats (and some dogs), reading [lots of reading!] and writing. She was one of the founding members of the Breadcrust Writers Group in Ann Arbor in 1994. She has two grown daughters, one who is married and manages Seva restaurant in Ann Arbor, and the other, who taught English as a Foreign Language for three years in Japan and currently teaches ESL at Lawrence Tech. She particularly enjoys visiting with her grandson, Ewan, who just turned three.