SueAnn Schatz

  Associate Professor of English

Chair of the English Department

Curriculum Vita

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature, University of New Mexico (1999). 

    Dissertation:  “’I would not be a woman like the rest’:  Aurora Leigh and British Women’s Domestic-Professional Fiction of the 1890s.”

    Fields of concentration:  British Romantic literature; Victorian literature; the novel.

M.A. in English Literature, University of New Mexico (1993). 

    Fields of concentration:  Nineteenth-century British literature; Nineteenth-century American literature; British Renaissance literature; criticism and theory.

B.A. in English, University of Delaware (1985).

 

Teaching Experience

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA  (2001-present)

• Courses taught:
  • Major British Writers:  The Brontës
  • Major British Writers:  Shakespeare (London program)
  • Major British Writers:  Jane Austen
  • Advanced Topics in British Literature:  Class, Gender & Race in the Victorian Novel
  • Advanced Topics in British Literature:  Victorian Women Writers
  • Advanced Topics in British Literature:  Radical Love in the 19th Century--The Novels of Austen, the Brontës, and Eliot
  • Romantic Movement
  • Humanities Seminar:  Nineteenth-Century British Feminist Literature
  • Humanities Seminar:  Contemporary Native American Fiction
  • Humanities Seminar:  British Romanticism
  • English Novel (team-taught)
  • British Literature After 1800
  • Business Writing
  • Introduction to Women's Studies
  • Introduction to Literature
  • Honors Composition & Literature I
  • Composition
  • Individualized Instructions:  British Literature Before 1800; Modern Drama

Reading Area Community College, Reading, PA

     Adjunct Instructor, Humanities Division (2000)

•   Courses taught:
  • Composition and Literature
  • Composition

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

     Visiting Lecturer, Department of English (1999-2000)

     Teaching Assistant, Department of English (1992-1999)

• Courses taught:
  • Special Topic:  Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
  • Survey of Later British Literature (1790-Present)
  • Analysis of Literature
  • Advanced Expository Writing
  • Technical Writing
  • Introduction to Literature for Non-Majors
  • Composition:  Analysis and Argument
  • Composition:  Exposition

 

Academic Service

[Note:  Service on committees was interrupted by sabbatical (Fall 2009) and medical leave (Spring 2010).]

• Coordinator, Women’s Studies minor (2006-9)
• Women’s Studies Minor faculty (2001-present)
  • Webmaster (2001-6)
• Advisory board member, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2005-present) 

     English Department committees:

• Promotion and Tenure (2006-present; chair 2007-9, 2010-present; chair 2010-11)
• Assessment (2010-present)
• Evaluation (2003-8; chair 2003-6)
• Introduction to Literature Activities (2009-present) 
• Search (2003-6; chair)
• Scholarships (2005-9)
• Web (2003-8)
• Social (2003-9)
• Alumni Survey (2001-4)

      University committees:

• University Curriculum Committee (2011-14)Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee (2011-14)
  • Curriculum Integration Subcommittee (2011-12)
• Arts & Sciences Council of Chairs (2011-14)
• Provost's Task Force on General Education (co-chair) (2012-13)
• Sabbatical Leave Committee (2011-13)
• Arts & Sciences Honor Awards Committee (2012)
• Middle States Self-Study Steering Committee (2008-10)
• President’s Commission on the Status of Women (2006-10)
• Campus Beautification (2007-present)
• Nominations and Elections (2005-7)
• Gender and Social Equity Issues (2003-9; secretary 2003-4)
• Local Negotiations (2005-7)
• Academic Awards--Gerald R. Robinson Distinguished (2005-7)
• APSCUF Scholarships (2003-5)
• Honorary Degrees and Commencement Speaker (2003-5)
• Presidential Evaluation (2002-3)
• Teaching Learning Center Program (2001-4)
  • Team leader (2003-4)
  • Presidential Inauguration (APSCUF representative) (2004-5)
    • Faculty-Staff Participation sub-committee
    • Transfer & Articulation Steering (SSHE committee; LHUP representative) (2003-4)

Service activities:

• “Angels and Authors: The Ideal Victorian Woman and the Woman Writer”; Invited keynote speaker, “Women’s Voices/Women’s Vision” conference; LHU (Mar. 2011).
• “Who the Heck is Annie E. Holdsworth? A Discussion about Rediscovering British ‘New Woman’ Writers”; Invited guest speaker, American Association of University Women, Annie Halenbake Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA (Mar. 2011).
• Invited guest speaker, opening night of art exhibit “Women Artists:  Feminist Concerns” (January 2008)
• Invited guest member of roundtable discussion for S.O.U.L. Sistahood’s First Annual Women’s Conference (March 2007)
• Curtain talk moderator for Machinal (Nov. 2006)
• Master's thesis committees (3; chaired 1)
• Capstone Honors thesis (directed 1)
• Women’s Studies Capstone (directed 2)
• New Faculty Mentor (2004-6)
• Summer Orientation (2004)
• APSCUF Student Welcome (2001-8)
• Student Holiday Dinner (2004)

At the University of New Mexico:

• Reviewer for Bedford/St. Martin’s Literature and Its Writers
• Reviewer for Addison Wesley Longman’s Literature:  An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama
• New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Scholar:  Led reading discussion groups on various books, including Angela’s Ashes, Fire on the Mountain and The House at Otowi Bridge
• Planning committee, Eighth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
• Proposal reviewer for Broadview Press
• Reader for Frontiers:  A Journal of Women’s Studies
• Freshman composition portfolio review committee

Publications  

• Ed. with introduction.  The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten (1895) and Joanna Traill (1893) by Annie E. Holdsworth, Vol. 5 New Woman Fiction 1881-99 series (London:  Pickering & Chatto, 2011).
• Ed. with Carolyn Oulton.  Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered (London:  Pickering & Chatto, 2010).
• “How to be a Feminist Without Saying So:  The New Woman and the New Man in Red Pottage.”  Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered.
• “Touring the Birth of Shakespeare” and “Celebrating Shakespeare at the Globe” (sidebars to “London Calling: Program Brings History and Theater to Life for LHU Students”). Lock Haven University Perspective (Fall 2009):  7-8.
• Rev. of Margaret Fuller:   Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age.  Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli, eds. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).  Journal of British Studies 48.1 (January 2009): 243-4.
• “Charlotte Brontë.”  Companion to the British Short Story.   Ed. Andrew Maunder.  New York: Facts on File (2007).
• “Rhoda Broughton.”  Companion to the British Short Story.   Ed. Andrew Maunder.  New York: Facts on File (2007).
• “Aurora Leigh as Paradigm of Domestic-Professional Fiction.”  Philological Quarterly 79.1 (Winter 2000):  91-117. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism.  Ed. Larry Trudeau.  Vol. 62.  Detroit:  Gale (May 2005).
• Rev. of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Simon Avery and Rebecca Stott (Longman/Pearson Education, 2003). Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 37.2 (Fall 2004).
• “Class Counts: The Domestic-Professional Writer, the Working Poor and Middle-Class Values in The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten and The Story of a Modern Woman.”  Silent Voices:  Forgotten Novels of Victorian Women Writers.  Ed. Brenda Ayres.  Westport, CT:        Praeger (2003).
• “Aurora Leigh as Paradigm of Domestic-Professional Fiction.”  Philological Quarterly 79.1 (Winter 2000):  91-117.
• “Charlotte Brontë.” Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences:  The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914.  Ed. John Powell.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2000.
• “Mary Shelley.”  Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences:  The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914.  Ed. John Powell.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2000.
• Rev. of Romantic Ideology Unmasked by Marjean D. Purinton (University of Delaware Press, 1994).  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 49.2 (1995):  203-5.
• “’Then they are always speaking against Yorkshire ways and Yorkshire folk’:  The Use of Dialect in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley and Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.”  TAG:  Journal of the Southwest Symposium (April 1994):  192-96.
• “’Your Girls That You All Love Are Mine Already’:  Sexual Imagery and Politics in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” collaborative essay with Penny Allison, Susan J. Levasseur, Mitzi K. McGuire, Lori Kula Mehl and Sara Spurgeon.  La Ventana:  Journal of the Southwest Symposium (June 1993):  115-54.

Conferences

• Panel chair, “River as Character.” EAPSU Conference, Lock Haven, PA (2010).
• “How to be a Feminist Without Saying So:  The New Woman and the New Man in Mary Cholomondeley's Red Pottage.”  Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, MD (2008).
• “Mary Cholmondeley and Aesthetic Democracy.”  Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Albuquerque, NM (2005).
• Women's Consortium of SSHE's Second Leadership Institute for Faculty Women (nominated to attend by Provost).  State College, PA (2004).
• “’The Most Perfect Education’:  Teaching Feminist Literature in a ‘Non-feminist’ Classroom.”  Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago (2003).
• “Class Counts:  Middle-Class Values and the Working Poor in Annie E. Holdsworth’s The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten.”  Eighth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1999).
• “Vampires at the Fin de Siècle:  Bram Stoker’s Dracula and A. A. Carr’s Eye Killers.”  Twentieth Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Regional Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (1999).
• “’With Every Womanly Grace and Charm’:  Feminism and the Angel in the House.”  A Celebration of Victorian Culture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1998).
• “Women Writing Women:  The Image of the Professional Woman Writer in British Women’s Fiction of the 1890s.”  Sixth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of California, Davis, CA (1997).
• “The Woman in The Last Man:  Mary Shelley, Gender and the Sibyl’s Cave.”  Aphra Behn Society Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA (1994).
• “’Then they are always speaking against Yorkshire ways and Yorkshire folk’:  The Use of Dialect in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley and Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.” Fifth Annual Southwest Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1994).
• “’His education properly finishes by a little practical experience with forbidden things’:  Education and Moral Development in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”  Western Conference for British Studies, Albuquerque, NM (1993).
• “In Vitro Frankenstein:  Mary Shelley’s Novel and Artificial Reproduction.”  Twenty-third Annual National Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Providence, RI (1993).
• “The Emergence Continues:  Lucy, Sexuality and Punishment.”  Part of a collaborative panel, “’Your Girls That You All Love Are Mine Already’:  Sexual Imagery and Politics in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”  Fourth Annual Southwest Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (1993).  

Editing Experience

Editorial Resources, Pasadena, TX

    Associate Editor (2003-present)

Awards and Research Grants

Lock Haven University Faculty Professional Development Grant (2003, 2005, 2008)

University of New Mexico Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (1996-97)

University of New Mexico Graduate Achievement Award (1995-96)

Buchanan-Arms Award for outstanding academic achievement in English (1994-95)

University of New Mexico Research, Projects and Travel Grants (1994, 1996, 1997)

 

Community

Clinton County CleanScapes volunteer steward (2005-present); Advisory Board Vice President (2011-present)

Lock Haven Community Orchestra (2008-present)