Susan Kalter
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
Current Courses
ENG 332.001 Advanced Studies in American Literature
ENG 426.001 Advanced Studies In American Literature
ENG 125.008 Literary Narrative
ENG 130.001 Survey Of American Literature
ENG 466.001 Native American Discourses, Literatures & Rhetorics
ENG 266.001 Native American Literature & Culture
Teaching Interests & Areas
• Literary, cultural, and historical study of the United States and North America
• Native American studies/Native American literatures
• Ethnic studies, critical theories of race including critical race theory, post-colonial/anti-colonial/decolonial theory
• World literatures, especially African, Caribbean, and circum-Caribbean (Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanophone)
• New American literary history & the archival recovery of noncanonical American texts
• African American literatures
• Wilderness and the environment
Research Interests & Areas
• North American Literatures
• 18th, 19th and early 20th century literary and cultural studies
• Native American studies/Native American literatures
• Global, multi-ethnic intellectual histories & intellectual spheres of influence
• The histories of imperialism, colonization and de-colonization
• Oral traditions, non-alphabetic writing systems, and their relationship to alphabetic literacy and writing
• Philosophies of language
• Multiculturism, critical theories of race including critical race theory, post-colonial/anti-colonial/decolonial theory
Service to the University
Director & advisor, Interdisciplinary Program in Native American Studies (2007-present)
Co-Director & advisor, Interdisciplinary Program in Ethnic Studies (2018-present); sole director & advisor from 2007-2018
AMALI Curriculum Committee, 2019-present
Graduate Committee, Department of English (2009-10, 2023-25)
University Curriculum Committee (elected, 2021-22)
• Vice Chair and liaison to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Academic Senate (elected, 2021-22)
Undergraduate Committee, Department of English (2000-02; Spring 2003; 2015-17; 2019-22; Chairperson, 2021-22)
Academic Senate (elected, 2006-21)
• Chair of the Senate (elected annually, 2014-21)
• Secretary of the Senate (elected annually, 2007-14)
• Member, Executive Committee (2007-21)
• Faculty Affairs Committee (Chair (elected) 2011-12; Member 2016-17, 2020-21)
• Member, Rules Committee (2019-20)
• Member, Planning and Finance Committee (2007-08, 2014-16, 2017-19)
• Member, Academic Affairs Committee (2013-14)
• Chair, Administrative Affairs and Budget Committee (elected, 2006-07, 2008-11, 2012-13)
• Chair, ASPT Equity ad hoc committee (2017-18)
• Chair, Academic Impact Fund ad hoc committee (2017-present)
• Chair, AFEGC Procedures working group (Summer 2017)
• Communications liaison to the Humanities faculty (2007-08, 2013-14)
Academic Planning Committee (member and liaison to the Academic Affairs Committee, 2013-14; ex-officio member, 2014-21; double member 2020-21)
Committee on Campus Communications to the Board of Trustees (2007-09, 2014-21; Chair, 2015-16, 2018-19)
Provost’s Advisory Council (ex-officio member, 2014-21)
Capital Planning and Budget Team (ex-officio member, 2014-21)
Chair, Council of Illinois University Senates (elected, 2014-21)
Data Stewardship and Information Technology Services Council (ex-officio member, 2015-21)
Compliance Working Group (2015-21)
Faculty Library Liaison, Department of English (2012-2020)
University Facilities Use Task Force, Fall 2018-Fall 2019
Research Proposal Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2017-19)
Department Faculty Status Committee, Department of English (elected, 2017-19)
Provost’s ad hoc committee toward proposal for IDEAS (U.S. Diversity) Graduation Requirement (invited, 2017-18)
Chair, Search Committee for a tenure-track faculty position in English Education, Department of English (2017-18)
Educating Illinois/University Strategic Plan Taskforce, January 2017-May 2018
ISU Homepage Working Group (2016-18)
Advisor, Graduate Student Association, a Registered Student Organization (2013-18)
Leadership Initiative Admissions and Advisory Committee (March 2016-May 2017)
Enterprise Portal Steering Committee (2016-17)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems policy drafting team (2015-17)
Institutional Review Board Internal Procedures Revision Task Force (Spring 2016)
Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Steering Committee (ex-officio member, 2014-15)
English Education Committee, Department of English (2014-15)
Search Committee for a tenure-track faculty position in African Literatures and Cultures, Department of English (2013-14)
Diversity Committee, Department of English (2007-09, 2012-13)
Faculty Advisory Board for Diversity Advocacy (formerly Intercultural Programs and Services)/Native American student issues sub-committee (2004-11, co-founder)
Graduate Committee, Department of English (2009-10)
Faculty Mentor, University Scholars Program (2008-09)
Search Committee for the Chair of the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences (elected, 2007-08)
Search Committee for a tenure-track faculty position in Global Literatures, Department of English (2007-08)
Advisor, Flatlanders Climbing Club, a Registered Student Organization (2006-08)
Member, Selection Committee, Student Involvement Awards (2007)
Global Literature Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2006-07)
College Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2002-03; 2005-06)
Professional Growth Committee, Department of English (2005-06)
Department Council, Department of English (elected, 2003-2005)
Faculty Advisory Committee, Laboratory for Integrated Learning and Technology (2001-03)
Julia Visor Award (formerly the C.L.R. James/Malcolm X Award) Subcommittee, Department of English (2000-03)
Writing Committee, Department of English (Fall 2002)
Nominating Committee for Minority-Scholar-in-Residence Charlene Teters (2002)
Search Committee for a tenure-track faculty position in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Department of English (2001-02)