SueAnn Schatz
Associate Professor of English
Women's Studies Coordinator
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
Special Topics in British Literature: Victorian Women Writers
Special 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)
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
Coordinator, Women's Studies minor (2006-9)
Women's Studies Minor faculty (2001-present)
Webmaster (2001-6)
Review board member, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (2005-present)
English Department committees:
Promotion and Tenure (2006-present; chair 2007-9)
Evaluation (2003-8; chair 2003-6)
Search (2003-6; chair)
Scholarships (2005-present)
Web (2003-present)
Social (2003-present)
Alumni Survey (2001-4)
University committees:
President's Commission on the Status of Women (2006-present)
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:
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 (2; 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-present)
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) by Annie E. Holdsworth, Vol. 5 New Woman Fiction 1881-99 series (London: Pickering & Chatto, forthcoming).
Ed. with Carolyn Oulton. Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered: A Collection of Essays (forthcoming).
“How to be a Feminist Without Saying So: The New Woman and the New Man in Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage.” Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered.
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 forthcoming).
"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
"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, Pearland, 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)