Diana Stout is an English Department Associate Chair (overseeing Kalamazoo and Battle Creek) and Assistant Professor of English at Davenport University, with writing experience in multiple genres.  She obtained her Master's in Fine Arts (MFA) at Western Michigan University and is currently pursuing a English Ph.D. in English Education.  Her doctoral exams centered on Victorian Literature & Thomas Hardy, English Education, and Rhetoric and Writing.  Plagiarism is her dissertation focus.

Her writing includes work in:

• Screenwriting
• Playrighting
• Fiction (novel & short story for children & adults,
• Nonfiction (magazine, newspaper)
• Poetry
• Column writing (newspaper & magazine)
• Technical writing

Teacher of screenwriting, fiction, nonfiction, column, and technical writing.

Teacher Consultant for the Third Coast Writing Center, a chapter of the National Writing Project.

Certified Online Instructor

Certified Feng Shui Consultant

This website contains information for:

• screenwriters & playwrights
• teachers
• fiction and nonfiction writers
• students
• novice writers

Plus, information about:

• Victorian literature
• plagiarism & copyright issues
• time management
• . . . and more

While, Diana has practiced photography, painting and drawing, and needlework in the past, her creative writing and teaching focus occupies her time today.  Her interests are about the words on the page and words transformed on the screen and stage.  While a number of creative writing projects brew anew or wait for a rewrite, she is currently at work on a medieval novel.

Other major interests include both Victorian and Romantic literature periods, in particular Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen; Arthurian and British history and literature; everything medieival; Hildegard of Bingen; Blackbeard;  ancient cultures; American naturalists and existentialists.  She enjoys puzzles, movies, museums, golf, earth and universe sciences, and most of all Nature.

Beowulf, The Woodlanders, and Persuasion are her favorite books.

This website  is a work in progress, so please come back often.