Sandra D. Shattuck, Ph.D.
4146 S. Memorial Pkwy. Apt. F
Huntsville AL 35802-2035
sdshattuck@gmail.com
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Education

Ph.D. (1988) The University of Texas at Austin, Program in Comparative Literature. Major emphasis: feminist literary criticism and theory. Languages and literatures: German, French. Other emphases: anglophone and francophone colonial/post-colonial literature of Africa and the Caribbean; African American literature; multicultural U.S. literature.

B.A. (1977) Johnston College (Redlands CA). Major emphasis: German language and literature. Other emphases: French and Spanish languages and literatures; feminist studies. [Johnston College was founded as an alternative and experimental four-year college based at the University of Redlands and currently operates as the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies.]

Administration

National Writing Project

Alabama A&M University (AAMU) Writing Project

Programs Director, 2005 to present - oversee all programs: Summer Institute, Continuity Programs, and Inservice; work with Executive Director, Co-Director, Inservice Director, and Technology Liaison

Teacher Consultant, 2003 to present

Associate Director, Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1999-2001. CWIT was founded by Prof. Joan Korenman in 1998 to address issues regarding gender and information technology. Responsibilities included:

Associate Project Director, Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), University of Arizona, Sept. 1995-Jan. 31, 1998. Three-year project, Global Processes, Local Lives: Comparative Approaches in Women's and Area Studies, was part of the Women's Studies, Area and International Studies Curriculum Transformation Project, a nationwide project funded by the Education, Media, Arts and Culture Unit of the Ford Foundation. Responsibilites included:

Teaching

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Foreign Languages, & Telecommunications, Alabama A&M University, Fall 2002 through Spring 2006

Part-time Instructor, Graduate Program, Departments of Education and English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Spring & Summer, 2002

Affiliate Faculty, Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2000-2002

Adjunct Faculty, University of Arizona

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi, Aug. 1988-May 1995

Directed and served on numerous honors thesis committees, masters thesis committees, and doctoral exam and dissertation committees; directed several independent study courses.

Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin

Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

Research Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

Dissertation

The Hard Work of Remembering in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People and Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster.
Supervisors: Professors Jane Marcus and Ramón Saldívar.
The work of memory in Marshall's novel concerns the history of slavery on a fictional Caribbean island; the work of memory in Wolf's novel concerns the history of fascism in Germany shortly before and during World War II. Following the feminist tenet that the personal is political, I claim that memory in these two novels always works simultaneously along personal and political lines, which are inextricably linked and continually inform and re-shape each other.

Publications

"Racing After Technology," rev. of Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground by Adam Banks (Mahwah NJ and Urbana IL: Lawrence Erlbaum and NCTE, 2006), forthcoming in JAC.

"Bedouin Black, Women in Black," Limestone Dust Poetry Festival 2005: The Anthology, April 2005.

"Mandala Write," Writing Matters, Jan. 2004.

"Collective Brainstorming: Using Scenarios to Address Contentious Issues in Curriculum Change," with Kimberly Jones, Janice Monk, and Amy Newhall. In Encompassing Gender: Integrating International Studies and Women's Studies. Eds. Lay, Mary M., Janice Monk, and Deborah S. Rosenfelt. NY: The Feminist Press, 2002.

Review of Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion for Game Boy Advance, http://www.umbc.edu/cwit/nd_miahm.html, 2002.

"The Outrageous Act as Gender Busting: An Experiential Challenge to Gender Roles," with Judith McDaniel and Judy Temple, in Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Student Expectations and Classroom Strategies. Eds. di Palma, Carolyn and Barbara Scott Winkler. Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

"Guided Floundering: The Past and Present Journeys of a Johnston Grad," Och Tamale 75.1 (Fall 98): 17-21.

Blickwechsel, with Jacqueline Vansant, et al.; a German reader and textbook for third- and fourth-semester college students (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990).

"The Stage of Scholarship: Crossing the Bridge from Harrison to Woolf," in Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Jane Marcus (London: Macmillan; Bloomington: IUP, 1987).

"Island Harvest," rev. of Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories, by Opal Palmer Adisa. Belles Lettres March/April 1987:10.

Rev. of Xarque and Other Poems, The Hermit-Woman, and Song for Anninho, by Gayl Jones. Conditions 13 (1986): 192-8.

Rev. of Women Writers: The Divided Self; Analysis of Novels by Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Bachmann, Doris Lessing and Others by Inta Ezergailis. Research in African Literatures 16.4 (1985): 607-09.

Editor, "Women Producing Art," in Proceedings of the Southwest Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature (Austin TX: Program in Comparative Literature, 1983).

Lectures & Conferences

"Teaching What We Don't Know: The Politics of Ignorance," Association of College English Teachers of Alabama Annual Conference, Alabama A&M University, 4-5 March 2005
On panel called Race, Gender, and the Politics of Canon Formation (scroll down to see program notes and pictures)

"Blogging, Bedouins, and Women in Black: A Matrix of Writing Activism," Rhetoric Society of American, Austin TX, 28-31 May 2004

Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, Books & Coffee, Alabama A&M University, Jan. 2003

"Teaching Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Resources," Alabama Council of Teachers of English, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Oct. 2005.

"Cybergrrls and Wired Women in the Classroom: Reflections of a FeMOOnist Pedagogue," National Women's Studies Association Twenty-second Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota, 13-17 June 2001

"Moving to the Next Stage: Breaking Barriers for Women in Technology," Feminist Expo 2000, Baltimore, 31 March - 2 April, 2000

"Women's Place on the Internet," National Women's Studies Association Twentieth Annual Conference, Albuquerque, 17-20 June 1999

"Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies: Expectations and Strategies," National Women's Studies Association Twentieth Annual Conference, Albuquerque, 17-20 June 1999

"Some Rhetorics of Healing," Fundamental Controversies Conference, University of Arizona, 12-13 Nov. 1998

"Efforts Towards Curriculum Integration of Women's Studies and Area/International Studies: The Personal is Political is Global: Is It Such a Small World After All?" New Mexico Statewide Women Studies Conference, Albuquerque, 6-8 March 1997

"Too Many Mangoes: Some Notes on Teaching Contemporary Jamaican Literature," Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 28 May 1993

"The Necessity of Confronting Homophobia: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People - A Case Study," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, NY, 27-30 Dec. 1992

"Teaching Multicultural Texts in Women's Studies," South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, 14-16 Nov. 1991

"Teaching What We Don't Know: Plotting the Boundaries of Our Ignorance in Multicultural Texts," Association for Integrative Studies, St. Paul, 24-27 Oct. 1991

"Clearings and Healings: The Myalism of Morrison's Beloved," Popular Culture Association Twentieth Annual Meeting, African American Literature Section, San Antonio, 27-30 March 1991

"The Cartography of Ethnic and World Literature: Mapping a Pedagogy of Productive Cultural Conflict," Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990's, The Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory and Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, University of Oklahoma, 19-21 Oct. 1990

"Teaching Each Other's Literatures: The Pedagogy of Differences and Commonalities," National Women's Studies Association Eleventh Annual Conference, Towson State University, 14-18 June 1989

"Traveling in All Directions at One Time: The Poetry of Gayl Jones," Popular Culture Association Nineteenth Annual Meeting, African American Literature Section, St. Louis, 5-8 April 1989 Popular Culture Association Nineteenth Annual Meeting, African American Literature Section, St. Louis, 5-8 April 1989

"The Changelings: The Real Estate of Blacks and Jews in Immigrant America," MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.) Third National Conference, East Carolina University, 17-18 March 1989

"Confronting Identities: Sex and Race in Ruth Seid's Wasteland," South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington D.C., 14-17 Nov. 1989

"Zombies, Duppies and Askaris: The Living Dead in the Diaspora," African Literature Association Thirteenth Annual Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 6-9 April 1988

"Zombies: Writing Against Amnesia in the Novels of Paule Marshall and Christa Wolf," National Women's Studies Association Ninth Annual Conference, Spelman College, 24-28 June 1987

"Corregidora: Generations of Herstorytellers," The Black Woman Writer and the Diaspora, Michigan State University, 27-30 Oct. 1985

"Women Producing Art," chair, Southwest Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 19-20 March 1982 (conference co-organizer)

"The Queen's Looking Glass: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea," Comparative Literature Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 1981

Workshops & Conferences Attended

Honors & Awards

Teacher of the Year Award, College of Arts & Sciences, 2003-2004, Alabama A&M University

University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1986-87

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin, Jan. 1984-Jan. 1985

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Seminar in German Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, June-August 1981

Service

Committees at Alabama A&M University

Co-advisor, Poetry Club
Co-chair, Gender Studies Interest Group
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Committees at the University of Southern Mississippi

Languages

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