Barbara Ashwood
Faculty Profile
English Instructor
Kaleidoscope Advisor
Education/Degrees:
M.A. – English, Ohio State University
B.A. – English and Women’s Studies, Minor in Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University
Classes Taught:
- ENG 270 – Creative Nonfiction Forms
- ENG 260 – Creative Writing
- ENG 101 – Composition I
- ENG 102 – Composition II
- ENG 099 – Composition I Companion
- ENG 090 – Basic Writing
About Me
Barbara Ashwood grew up surrounded by cornfields and cows on her family’s farm in rural Illinois. She earned a B.A. in English and Women’s Studies (Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi) from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
After graduate school, Barbara returned to the area to teach creative writing, general honors, and composition classes. She is a faculty advisor for Kaleidoscope, Spoon River College’s literature and visual arts journal, and her work has appeared in Transformations: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel, Journal of Rural Social Sciences, the Chicago Tribune, Adanna, the River Rock Times, and local nonfiction periodicals.
