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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400

Susan Scheckel

Associate Professor. Ph.D. U. Cal. Berkeley, 1992; American Literature.

2091 Humanities; Tu 10-12, W 1:45-2:45, and by appointment.
631-632-7411
susan.scheckel@stonybrook.edu

Awards:

  • The President's and Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Service by a Faculty Member (2007-08)
  • Don D. Walker Prize for best essay published in western American studies (2003)
  • South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize (1999)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award (University of Memphis 1996)

Courses:

Spring 2009
  • Literary Analysis and Argumentation (EGL 204.1) MWF 9:35-10:30 
  • Nineteenth-Century American Literature:  The American Gothic (EGL 318) MWF 11:45-12:40
  • Global Studies: Early 20th-Century Immigrants to NYC (GLS 102.2) M 12:50-2:20

Selected Publications

  • The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. 
  • Boundaries of Affect:  Ethnicity and Emotion, E. Ann Kaplan and Susan Scheckel, eds.  New York:  Humanities Institute of Stony Brook Occasional Papers Series, 2007, 79 pp.
  • "Home on the Train: Race and Mobility in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love,"  American Literature 74 (2002): 219-50. 
  • "Domesticating the Drama of Conquest: Barker's Pocahontas on the Popular Stage," ATQ 10:3 (September 1996), pp. 231-243.
  • "... In the Land of His Fathers: Cooper, Land Rights and the Legitimation of American National Identity." James Fenimore Cooper: New Historical and Literary Contexts, Wil Verhoeven, ed. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993, pp. 125-150.
  • "Mary Jemison and the Domestication of the American Frontier." Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier, Eric Heyne, ed. New York: Twayne, 1992, pp. 93-109.



Susan Scheckel did her PhD at Uc-Berkeley and taught at The University of Memphis and University of Southern California before coming to Stony Brook in 2000.  She teaches nineteenth-century literature and culture with a special interest in the history of race and nationalism.  Current projects include a book manuscript on American Geneologies of Nostagia (focusing on the eighteenth to early twentieth century) and articles on Native Americans in nineteenth-century magazines and photography; the illustrated volumes of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry, and nostalgia in Charles Chesnutt's conjure tales.

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