Stone, Susan M.
Associate Professor of English
B.A., Emory University, 1991
M.A., University of South Carolina, 1997
Certificate in Gender Studies, 1999
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2001
At Loras since: 2001
Room Hoffman 537
susan.stone@loras.edu
Courses Taught: American Literature, 1820-1860, American Literature, 1861-1900, Major Figures: Hawthorne, African-American Literature and Culture, Law in American Literature and Film, Literature and Film of the Wild West and American Frontier, Native Voices, Native Lives: Cherokee Storytelling, MOI: Lord of the Rings and Tolkien: Epic Quest or Medieval Myth?, Critical Writing: Fiction, College Writing, Democracy and Global Diversity.
Research Interests: Literary Transcendentalism, Realism and Naturalism, The American Renaissance, Social Reform and Social Justice Movements, Race and Gender Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, African American Literature and Culture.
Recent Publications:
“William Dean Howells’ A Traveler from Altruria” and “Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s A Humble Romance and Other Stories.” Encyclopedia of American Writers, 1815-1895. Ed. Brett Barney. (Facts on File, Forthcoming 2009).
“Early American Women Writers: Why Colonial- and Federal-Era Authors Should No Longer Be Neglected in the College Classroom.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP online Winter 2008).
“Olivia Ward Bush Banks.” African American Women Writers: an A to Z Guide. Ed. Yolanda Page. (Boston: Greenwood Press, 2006).
“George Ripley.” The American Renaissance in New England, a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, Wesley T. Mott, Ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 2004).
“Susan Warner.” Antebellum Writers-II, a volume in the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, Kent Ljungquist, Ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 2002).
“A Girl’s Garden,” “Immigrants,” and “Clear and Colder.” Critical analyses in The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, Eds. Nancy Tuten and John Zubizaretta (Boston: Greenwood Press, 2001).
“Letters and Poems from Ellery Channing to Fanny Cummings, 1880-1882.” The Concord Saunterer (the Thoreau Society) 7 (1999): 200-216. Co-authored with Joel Myerson.
“Transcendental Realism: The Thoreauvian Presence in Howells’ A Modern Instance.” Studies in American Fiction 27: 2 (Autumn 1999): 149-157.
“Lucretia Peabody Hale.” American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
“Sedgwick’s A New England Tale.” A review of the Oxford University Press edition of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s A New England Tale (foreword by Cathy N. Davidson). Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Newsletter (Spring 1997): 4.
