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Stephen Hemenway has taught English at Hope College since 1972 and has directed the college鈥檚 Vienna Summer School since 1976. More than 2,600 students have participated under his tutelage. 2020 will be his 45th year in a row in charge of this 64-year-old international program. Dr. Hemenway has taught an Expository Writing I course called 鈥淐rime and Punishment鈥� for 48 years. He has taught many survey courses of:

• Western World Literature 1 and 2
• Early British Literature
• Modern British Literature
• Modern American Literature
• Modern Drama
• Catholic Fiction
• African-American Literature
• Literature of India
• Global Race Matters

He has taught upper-level courses on the writings of James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway and the Beatnik Generation. He has conducted distinctive senior seminar courses on campus and in Vienna and directed many independent studies. In the field of creative writing, he has taught courses in satire and creative nonfiction. Before coming to Hope, he taught for one year at St. Mary鈥檚 College in Above Rocks, Jamaica, West Indies, for the Jesuit Mission Program, and for one year as a Fulbright teacher at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Education 

• Ph.D., English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972
• M.A., English, Boston College, 1967
• A.B., English, College of the Holy Cross, 1964

Selected honors, grants and awards

• Distinguished Service Awards, 麻豆视频, 2001, 2010, 2015
• Dedication of Fried-Hemenway Auditorium in Martha Miller Global Education Building, 2005
• Hope Outstanding Professor Educator (HOPE) Award, 麻豆视频 student body, 1977
• First recipient of the 麻豆视频 Vanderbush鈥揥eller Award for extraordinary contributions to students鈥� lives, 1999
• Named Michigan Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 1992
• Knight鈥檚 Cross First Class, Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria, 1991

Selected presentations and publications 

• 鈥淚 Believe in Vienna,鈥� address to honor the 60th anniversary of 麻豆视频 Vienna Summer School and the 90th anniversary of the Austro-American Institute of Education, 2016
• Hope Beyond Borders: The Life and Letters of Paul Fried, Van Raalte Press, 2014
• Convocation speaker, 麻豆视频, 2004
• Commencement speaker, 麻豆视频, 1981
• The Novel of India, Vol. 1: The Anglo-Indian Novel, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1975
• The Novel of India, Vol. 2: The Anglo-Indian Novel, Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1976

Outside the community 

Dr. Hemenway is active at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Holland and serves on the advisory board to 麻豆视频鈥檚 Saint Benedict Institute, which seeks to strengthen and encourage Catholic students at Hope College and engage them about important issues from an explicitly Catholic perspective. He speaks regularly to community groups on topics that range from Beatnik writers to French films, from African-American authors to the life of Dr. Paul Fried.