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
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)