Susan
Gardner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., Rhodes University , South Africa , 1986
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1973
- B.A., Macalester College , 1967
Areas of Interest
- American Indian Literature and Film
- Transnational Feminisms
- Postcolonial Literary Theory
- American Indian Children's Literature
- Life Narrative
Research Interests
Currently completing a biography, A Vision of Double Woman : Ella Cara Deloria's Formative Years (Ella Deloria was a prominent Dakota Sioux ethnologist and linguist who also wrote a multi-generation novel about American Indian women's lives on the northern Great Plains, before Euramerican military conquest). Recent Selected Publications
Edited books:
(with Patricia E. Scott) Bessie Head : a Bibliography . Introduction by Susan Gardner. National English Literary Museum Bibliographic Series No. 1. Grahamstown , South Africa : National English Literary Museum, 1986. Rev. ed. 1993.
Four South African Poets . Interviews by Susan Gardner with Robert Berold, Jeremy Cronin, Douglas Reid Skinner, and Stephen Watson. National English Literary Museum Interview Series 1. Grahamstown , South Africa : National English Literary Museum, 1986.
Miles Franklin's " My Brilliant Career ." South African Matriculation set-text edition. Cape Town : David Philip, 1982.
Selected recent articles:
[In Press] “Double Woman in Academe: from Ethnology to Fiction in Ella Cara Deloria's Waterlily .” New introduction to 20 th anniversary edition of Waterlily , U of Nebraska P, 2008.
[In Press] “Weaving an Epic Story: Ella Cara Deloria and the Indians of Robeson Co., North Carolina, 1940-41.” The Mississippi Quarterly 60:2, (Winter 2007): 31-55.
[In Press] “A Conversation with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron and Eastern Cherokee) about her memoir Rock, Ghost, Willow , Deer: a Story of Survival, 2005” (with Ellen Arnold and Ursula Couch). The Mississippi Quarterly 60: 2 (Winter 2007): 79-99.
“Piety, Pageantry and Politics on the Northern Great Plains : an American Indian Woman Restages Her People's Conquest.” The Forum on Public Policy , the online journal of the Oxford Round Roundtable [ Harris Manchester College , Oxford , England ], Winter 2007 edition: 1-18. http://www.forumonpublicpolicy.com/archive07/
“'Although It Broke My Heart to Cut Some Bits I Fancied': Ella Deloria's Original Design for Waterlily .” American Indian Quarterly 27: 3 & 4, 2003, 667-96 . http://muse.edu/journals/american_
indian_quarterly/ v027/27.3gardner.htm.
Selected Grants:
Southern Regional Education Board, 1998 and 2000.
Lannan Foundation grant to participate in a four-week summer institute on Am. Indian Autobiography, D'Arcy McNickle Center on Am. Indian History, Newberry Library, Chicago, summer 2002.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 2090: Myth, Fiction, and American Indian Literature
- ENGL 2111: Ancient World Literatures
- ENGL 2100: Writing about Literature
- ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature
- AMST 3000: Introduction to American Indian Studies
- AMST 3000: American Indians and Film (the Hollywood “Indian”)
- AMST 3000: Contemporary American Indian Film
- ENGL 3050: Colonial and Postcolonial Children's Literature
- ENGL 3050: Major African Writers—Achebe and Gordimer
- ENGL 3050: Comparative African Literatures (West and Southern Africa )
- ENGL 3156: Introduction to Native North American Indian Literatures
- ENGL 4002: Female Quest Literature
- ENGL 4002: Postcolonial Women's Writing
- ENGL 4050/5050: Native North American Indian Women
- ENGL 4050/5050: Comparative Autobiography
- ENGL 4104/5104: American Indians and Children's Literature
- ENGL 6070: World Literature for Teachers
- ENGL 6070: Contemporary American Indian Fiction
- ENGL 6070: Native North American Indian Autobiography
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte , 1990-Present
UNCC Faculty Affiliate, Women's Studies, 2003--.
UNCC Faculty Affiliate, American Studies, 2007--.
Marquette University , Milwaukee , WI 1988-1990
Carroll College , Waukesha , WI , 1989
Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa , 1985
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg , 1982-84
University of Aarhus , Denmark , 1981
University of Papua New Guinea, 1975-79
Administrative Appointments:
Coordinator, English Learning Community, 2003-2005.
Resident Director, UNCC Education Abroad, Kingston University
London , 2006-2007.
Community Service :
- Speaker, with members of the Lumbee tribe and the Catawba Nation, on “Charlotte Talks,” WFAE, a local National Public Radio affiliate, for Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 30, 1999. Audiotape available.
- “American Indian Children's Literature of the Southeast,” workshop at Native American Traditions Day, Great Aunt Stella Community Center/UNC Charlotte Native American Academy, Charlotte, NC, 24 March 2001.
- Established community-based learning partnership with the Urban Ministry Center (a clearing house of services for the homeless) and the English Learning Community, Charlotte , NC . 2004-05.
Awards :
- Keeper of the Fire Award, Indian Education Program. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools , NC . 1994-96.
- International Women's Day Recognition, UNC Charlotte, April 2006.
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