Teaching Career
Wallace currently is a professor and lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Of his career as a teacher, Wallace has stated:
"Teaching undergraduates is a much different than teaching graduate or post-graduate students. My job is to foster an appreciation for the art of writing. Showing a student what’s behind the curtain, so he’ll at least be able to see and appreciate these things when he reads a book. If he chooses to write himself – and of course, very few undergraduates pursue writing beyond this level – he knows some of the very basic devices used to creating a compelling story. Rarely does a student leave our program homogenized: even if that were something we wanted to do, we just don’t have them long enough."
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