{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:22:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/302\/2012\/10\/S._Gardner_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21\" alt=\"S._Gardner_\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/302\/2012\/10\/S._Gardner_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., Rhodes University , South Africa , 1986<\/li>\n<li>M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1973<\/li>\n<li>B.A., Macalester College , 1967<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Indian Literature and Film<\/li>\n<li>Transnational Feminisms<\/li>\n<li>Postcolonial Literary Theory<\/li>\n<li>American Indian Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>Life Narrative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrently completing a biography, <em>A Vision of Double Woman : Ella Cara Deloria&#8217;s Formative Years<\/em> (Ella Deloria was a prominent Dakota Sioux ethnologist and linguist who also wrote a multi-generation novel about American Indian women&#8217;s lives on the northern Great Plains, before Euramerican military conquest).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction, New Edition of Ella Cara Deloria,\u00a0<em>Waterlily<\/em>. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2009: v-xxviii.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ella Cara Deloria and the Profession of Kinship.&#8221; Simone Pellerin, ed.\u00a0<em>Before Yesterday<\/em>: the\u00a0<em>Long History of Native American Writing<\/em>. Pessac, France: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009: 109-119.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(with Patricia E. Scott) <em>Bessie Head : a Bibliography<\/em> . Introduction by Susan Gardner. National English Literary Museum Bibliographic Series No. 1. Grahamstown , South Africa : National English Literary Museum, 1986. Rev. ed. 1993.<\/p>\n<p><em>Four South African Poets<\/em> . 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.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Franklin&#8217;s &#8220;<em> My Brilliant Career<\/em> .&#8221; South African Matriculation set-text edition. Cape Town : David Philip, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected recent articles: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weaving an Epic Story: Ella Cara Deloria&#8217;s Pageant for the Indians of of Robeson Co., North Carolina, 1940-41.&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Mississippi Quarterly<\/em> 60: 1 (Winter 2007): 33-57.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Conversation with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron and Eastern Cherokee) about her memoir<em> Rock, Ghost, Willow Dear: a Story of Survival<\/em>, 2005&#8243; (with Ellen Arnold and Ursula Couch).\u00a0<em>The Mississippi Quarterly<\/em>, 60: 1 (Winter 2007): 81-100.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Piety, Pageantry and Politics on the Northern Great Plains: an Am. Indian Woman Restages Her People&#8217;s Conquest.&#8221;\u00a0<em>The Forum on Public Policy<\/em>, the online journal of the Oxford Roundtable [Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, England]. Winter 2007 edition.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forumonpublicpolicy.com\/archive07\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forumonpublicpolicy.com\/archive07\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Although It Broke My Heart to Cuts Some Bits I Fancied:&#8217; Ella Deloria&#8217;s Original Design for Waterlily.&#8221;\u00a0<em>American Indian Quarterly<\/em> 27: 3 &amp; 4, 2003: 667-96.<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v0227\/27.3gardner\/html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/muse.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v0227\/27.3gardner\/html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speaking of Ella Deloria: Conversations with Joyzelle Gingway Godfrey, 1998-2000.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Am. Indian Quarterly<\/em> 24:3 (Summer 2000): 456-81.<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v024\/24.3gardner.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v024\/24.3gardner.html<\/a>[In Press] \u201cDouble Woman in Academe: from Ethnology to Fiction in Ella Cara Deloria&#8217;s <em>Waterlily<\/em> .\u201d New introduction to 20 th anniversary edition of <em>Waterlily<\/em> , U of Nebraska P, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>[In Press] \u201cWeaving an Epic Story: Ella Cara Deloria and the Indians of Robeson Co., North Carolina, 1940-41.\u201d <em>The Mississippi Quarterly <\/em>60:2, (Winter 2007): 31-55.<\/p>\n<p>[In Press] \u201cA Conversation with Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron and Eastern Cherokee) about her memoir <em>Rock, Ghost, Willow , Deer: a Story of Survival<\/em>, 2005\u201d (with Ellen Arnold and Ursula Couch). <em>The Mississippi Quarterly<\/em> 60: 2 (Winter 2007): 79-99.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiety, Pageantry and Politics on the Northern Great Plains : an American Indian Woman Restages Her People&#8217;s Conquest.\u201d <em>The Forum on Public Policy<\/em> , the online journal of the Oxford Round Roundtable [ Harris Manchester College , Oxford , England ], Winter 2007 edition: 1-18. <a title=\"http:\/\/www.forumonpublicpolicy.com\/archive07\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forumonpublicpolicy.com\/archive07\/\">http:\/\/www.forumonpublicpolicy.com\/archive07\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Although It Broke My Heart to Cut Some Bits I Fancied&#8217;: Ella Deloria&#8217;s Original Design for <em>Waterlily<\/em> .\u201d <em>American Indian Quarterly<\/em> 27: 3 &amp; 4, 2003, 667-96 . <a title=\"http:\/\/muse.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v027\/27.3gardner.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/muse.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v027\/27.3gardner.htm\">http:\/\/muse.edu\/journals\/american_indian_quarterly\/v027\/27.3gardner.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Presentations<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel on Syllabus Sharing, International Children&#8217;s Literature Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Soft Money and Hard Cash: Ella Deloria as Academic Piece-Worker.&#8221; Am. Indian Literature Symposium, Universite Paul Valery III, Montpellier, France, May 17, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>(Invited panelist.), Native American Studies Week, Univ. of SC-Lancaster. Integrating community service learning in Am. Indian Studies courses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Vision of Double Woman: Ella Cara Deloria and the Profession of Kinship&#8221; (Preface). Am. Indian Literature Symposium, Universite Paul Valery III, Montpellier, France, May 15, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Native American Studies Academy, UNC\u00a0Charlotte, March 28, 2008. Presentation on the ethics and politics of non-Indians writing Am. Indian biography.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reel Indians and Reel Indians: Sherman Alexie&#8217;s Independent Film, &#8216;The Business of Fancy Dancing.'&#8221; School of Performance and Screen Studies Research Series, Kingston University London, 16 April 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quandaries: Politics and Ethics of Non-Indians Writing Am. Indian Biography.&#8221; School of Humanities Research Series, Kingston University London, Fall 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1 + 1&#8221; \u00a0= &gt;2: Team Teaching &#8220;Am. Indian Women&#8221; at Two Universities in Simulcast Format.&#8221; (with Dr. Linda Oxendine). Panel on pedagogy, Native American Literature Symposium, Saginaw Chippewa Reservation, Michigan. April 8, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;A Subject No One Wants to Bring Up:&#8217; Am. Indian Women&#8217;s Opportunities for Leadership between the two World Wars.&#8221; Oxford Round Table, St. Anthony&#8217;s College, Oxford University, England. Aug. 12, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miss Ella&#8217;s Old-Time Medicine Show, II! Precursors to the Lumbee Pageant.&#8221; Southeastern Am. Indian Studies Conference, Univ. of NC at Pembroke. April 14, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miss Ella&#8217;s Old-Time Medicine Show.&#8221; Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake: MN. March 22, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>(Invited Panelist) &#8220;American Indians as Wards in Federal Law and the Early Discourse of Am. Indian Children&#8217;s Literature.&#8221; NC Humanities Educators&#8217; Conference, Univ. of NC at Pembroke, Sept. 2003.<\/p>\n<p>(Invited Panelist) &#8220;A&#8217; Young Girl Had Never Done Such a Thing Before&#8217;: Louise Erdrich&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Birchbark House<\/em> as Post-Dated Prequel to\u00a0<em>Tracks<\/em>.&#8221; &#8220;A Convergence of Cultures: Multi-Cultural Children&#8217;s Literature.&#8221; Eastern Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC, March 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Grants:<\/strong><br \/>\nSouthern Regional Education Board, 1998 and 2000.<br \/>\nLannan Foundation grant to participate in a four-week summer institute on Am. Indian Autobiography, D&#8217;Arcy McNickle Center on Am. Indian History, Newberry Library, Chicago, summer 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses Taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 2090: Myth, Fiction, and American Indian Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 2111: Ancient World Literatures<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 2100: Writing about Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3100: Approaches to Literature<\/li>\n<li>AMST 3000: Introduction to American Indian Studies<\/li>\n<li>AMST 3000: American Indians and Film (the Hollywood \u201cIndian\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>AMST 3000: Contemporary American Indian Film<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3050: Colonial and Postcolonial Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3050: Major African Writers\u2014Achebe and Gordimer<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3050: Comparative African Literatures (West and Southern Africa )<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3156: Introduction to Native North American Indian Literatures<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4002: Female Quest Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4002: Postcolonial Women&#8217;s Writing<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4050\/5050: Native North American Indian Women<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4050\/5050: Comparative Autobiography<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4104\/5104: American Indians and Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6070: World Literature for Teachers<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6070: Contemporary American Indian Fiction<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6070: Native North American Indian Autobiography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional Appointments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faculty Appointments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of North Carolina\u00a0at\u00a0Charlotte , 1990-Present<\/li>\n<li>UNC\u00a0Charlotte Faculty Affiliate, Women&#8217;s Studies, 2003&#8211;.<\/li>\n<li>UNC\u00a0Charlotte Faculty Affiliate, American Studies, 2007&#8211;.<\/li>\n<li>Marquette University , Milwaukee , WI 1988-1990<\/li>\n<li>Carroll College , Waukesha , WI , 1989<\/li>\n<li>Rhodes University , Grahamstown , South Africa , 1985<\/li>\n<li>University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg , 1982-84<\/li>\n<li>University of Aarhus , Denmark , 1981<\/li>\n<li>University of Papua New Guinea, 1975-79<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Administrative Appointments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coordinator, English Learning Community, 2003-2005.<\/li>\n<li>Resident Director, UNC\u00a0Charlotte Education Abroad, Kingston University<\/li>\n<li>London , 2006-2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Community Service:<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 24px;\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaker, with members of the Lumbee tribe and the Catawba Nation, on \u201cCharlotte Talks,\u201d WFAE, a local National Public Radio affiliate, for Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 30, 1999. 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Shepherd&#8217;s Center East\/Memorial United Methodist Church, 12 February 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Invited Speaker on &#8220;The First Thanksgiving.&#8221; Diversity luncheon, Mecklenburg Co. Tax Assessor&#8217;s Office. Nov. 20, 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Awards : <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keeper of the Fire Award, Indian Education Program. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools , NC . 1994-96.<\/li>\n<li>International Women&#8217;s Day Recognition, UNC\u00a0Charlotte, April 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Literature Life Narrative Research Interests Currently completing a biography, A Vision of Double Woman : Ella Cara Deloria&#8217;s Formative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/susan-gardner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}