Background

Wachal was born on December 26, 1960 in Pinckneyville, Illinois, United States; the daughter of Willard Henry Schwarz and Norma Jean (Mohr) Schwarz.

Education

Wachal received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Greenville College (nowadays Greenville University) in 1981. Sixteen years later she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the same college. In 2000, she was given a Master of Arts degree in English from St. Louis University.

Career

Wachal began her career as an instructor of English at St. Louis University in 1997 and had held it for two years. In 2002, she took the same position at Southern Illinois University and at St. Louis Community College. Since 2004 Barbara has been an assistant professor of English at St. Louis Community College.

Works

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• book

  • The American Encounter with Islam

    (Introducing Islam.)

    2003

Membership

Wachal is a member of Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, American Anti-Slavery Society, Mid-America American Studies Association, American Studies Association, Organization of American Historians, American History Association, American Studies Association, Thoreau Society, SLU American Studies Graduate Student Association, Amnesty International and Beta Beta Beta.

Interests

• gardening

Connections

On June 5, 1982 Barbara Wachal married Roger Erwin Wachal. They have two children.

Father:

Willard Henry Schwarz

Mother:

Norma Jean (Mohr) Schwarz

Spouse:

Roger Erwin Wachal

child:

Katherine May Wachal

child:

Laura Elizabeth Wachal