Susannah Mintz
Associate Professor

B.A., UC Berkeley
M.F.A.,  Columbia University
Ph.D., Rice University

Office: Palamountain 322
Phone:(518) 580-5169
Email: smintz@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests

•    Seventeenth-century British
                          literature
•    Autobiography and Life Writing
•    Disability Studies
•    Creative Nonfiction/Personal Essay
•    Poetry

Courses Taught

•    SSP 100: Scribner Seminar, Disability in Literature
•    EN 105:  Autobiography and the Traumatized Self
•    EN 110:  Introduction to Literary Studies
•    EN 213:  Poetry
•    EN 223:  Women and Literature
•    EN 347:  Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
•    EN 348:  Milton
•    EN 360:  Women Writers
•    EN 375:  Milton and Popular Culture
•    EN 378:  Nonfiction Workshop
•    WS 201: Feminist Theories and Methodologies

Selected Publications

• Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities (North Carolina, 2007)
• Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (Delaware, 2003)
• “Forms of Self-Disclosure in Lyrical Essay,” forthcoming in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
• “‘Who Wants Cheese?’: The Gilmore Girls’ Perpetual Hunger,” in Screwball Television: Gilmore Girls, ed. David Scott Diffrient and David Lavery (Syracuse, 2010)
• “In Turbulent Love with the World: On the Rhetoric of Gloom and Joy,” in Unspeakable: On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs, ed. Lisa M. Johnson and Susannah B. Mintz (Palgrave, 2010)
• “Side-by-Side: Life Writers on Disabled Siblings,” in New Essays on Life Writing and the Body, ed. Christopher Stuart and Stephanie Todd (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009)
• “Lyrical Bodies: Poets on Disability and Masculinity,” in Walk Like a Man, ed. Russell Shuttleworth (Nashville, TN Vanderbilt, 2009)
• “Strange Bodies: Thomas Traherne’s Disabled Subject,” in Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays, ed. Jacob Blevins, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Binghamton SUNY Press, 2007)
• “Teaching Women’s Autobiography in the Undergraduate Classroom,” in Approaches to Teaching Life Writing Texts, ed. Craig Howes and Miriam Fuchs (New York MLA, 2007)
• “Blue Light,” personal essay, Sycamore Review (Summer 2009)
• “The Dirty Little Secret of Sabbatical,” personal essay, Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2009)
• “Taking Leave,” personal essay, Puerto del Sol 42, 2 (Summer 2008)
• “Tiny Fires,” personal essay, Ninth Letter (Spring 2008)
• “To Boredom and Back,” personal essay, Life Writing 4, 2 (October 2007)
• “Pain in the Neck,” personal essay, in Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics, ed. Kimberly R. Myers (West Lafayette, IN Purdue University Press, 2007)
• “Whirlpool,” prose poem, American Literary Review (Fall 2009)