11 Facts About William Chace

William Chace was born on 1938 and is a Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University.

William Chace specializes in the work of James Joyce in addition to the work of W B Yeats, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound.

Sonnenfeld subsequently sued Emory in the Federal Court, and during the proceedings it emerged that William Chace had anonymously leaked information to the press regarding evidence admitted in the suit, in contravention to university policy.

William Chace currently teaches a number of courses—on Joyce, Yeats, Eliot and Pound—at Stanford University in its Continuing Studies Program.

William Chace participated in dramatics at Stillman, acting in a production of Edward Albee's “The Death of Bessie Smith”, and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars.

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William Chace wanted the faculty to take more responsibility for decision making.

William Chace had been accused of being racist and uncommitted to diversity, an irony that the media noted given his early teaching at Stillman and his participation in the civil-rights movement that resulted in being “thrown to the ground by police, threatened with a cattle prod, and locked in jail overnight on charges that included resisting arrest.

In 1995, William Chace oversaw Emory's establishment of a campus-wide domestic partners policy for all employees, setting a trend for schools and businesses in the South, although by 2002 it remained only one of two schools in Georgia offering same-sex domestic partners benefits.

William Chace responded in a lengthy letter to the presiding bishop, arguing that Emory's policy was consistent both with its educational mission and with the call to justice in the Methodist Church's Book of Discipline.

In 2008 Common Knowledge published the first of several essays and reviews William Chace contributed to that magazine, "On the Margin: Irving Howe Reconsidered".

William Chace has written many articles about various aspects of and problems in higher education for The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, and other publications.