Ruth Ray is Professor and Director of Writing in the English Department, as well as Faculty Associate with the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University. She was a 1994-1997 national Brookdale fellow in gerontology, during which time she conducted an ethnographic study of older adults' autobiographical writing and lifestory telling. Her research takes her into nursing homes and senior citizen centers in the Detroit metropolitan area, where she works with both able elders and the cognitively impaired. Her most recent book, Beyond Nostalgia: Aging and Life-Story Writing (University Press of Virginia, 2000) explores adult development through lifestory telling. She is co-editor, with Thomas Cole and Robert Kastenbaum, of the Handbook of the Humanities and Aging, 2nd ed. (Springer, 2000). Dr. Ray publishes and lectures widely on the subjects of feminist gerontology, narrative methods in age studies, women's writing, and intergenerational learning.
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