Faculty
Susannah Mintz
Professor
Office: Palamountain 324
Phone: 518-580-5169
Email: smintz@skidmore.edu
Education:
- B.A., UC Berkeley
- M.F.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Rice University
Teaching and research interests:
- Disability Studies
- Autobiography and Life Writing
- Creative Nonfiction/Personal Essay
- Seventeenth-century British literature
- Poetry
Courses taught:
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 213: Poetry
- EN 219: Nonfiction
- EN 223: Women and Literature
- EN 229: Disability in Literature
- EN 280: Introduction to Nonfiction Writing
- EN 347: Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
- EN 348: Milton and Popular Culture
- EN 377: Reading for Writers: Nonfiction
- EN 378: Nonfiction Workshop
- EN 381N: Advanced Projects in Writing Nonfiction
Selected publications:
Books:
- Love Affair in the Garden of Milton (LSU Press, September 2021). Winner of the 2023 Memoir Magazine Book Prize in the Literature and Grief category.
- The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Hurt and Pain: Literature and the Suffering Body (Bloomsbury, 2014)
- On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology, ed. Lisa M. Johnson and Susannah B. Mintz (Palgrave, 2011)
- Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities North Carolina, 2007)
- Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (Delaware, 2003)
Scholarly essays in: Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, PMLA, Milton Studies, Life Writing, biography, National Women鈥檚 Studies Association Journal, Restoration, George Herbert Journal and elsewhere
Chapters in: New Feminist Literary Studies, Jane Eyre and Disability, An Collins and the Historical Imagination, New Essays on Life Writing and the Body, Approaches to Teaching Life Writing Texts, Re-Reading Thomas Traherne and elsewhere
Essay and memoir in: Sonora Review, Epiphany, Ninth Letter, Michigan Quarterly, South Loop, Birmingham Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Sycamore Review, The Writer鈥檚 Chronicle, Life Writing and elsewhere
Prose poetry and flash nonfiction in: Thread/Stitch, Best New Poets 2016, American Literary Review
Encyclopedia editing in: Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, vol. 4, co-edited with Chris Gabbard, A Cultural History of Disability (Bloomsbury, 2019) Gale-Cengage Disability Experiences, two-volume encyclopedia, co-advising with G. Thomas Couser
Selected honors and awards:
- Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLII (2018), for 鈥淲hite Matter鈥�
- Ralph Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching, 91爆料 (2017)
- Finalist, Epiphany chapbook contest (2015), for Paper Cranes
- Winner, South Loop Review National Essay Contest (2014), for 鈥淔alse Starts鈥�
- Notable Essay mention, Best American Essays 2010, for 鈥淒irty Little Secret of Sabbatical鈥�
- Finalist, William Allen Nonfiction Prize, The Journal (2010), for 鈥淰anishings鈥�