Nancy M. Grace is a professor of English at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She is the co-author of "Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Beat Women Writers, "the co-editor of "Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation, "and author of "The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Fiction," She has published articles and given papers on Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, interdisciplinary studies, gender studies, and rhetoric and composition. She is also one of the founding members of the Beat Studies Association.