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Susan Crutchfield
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Susan Crutchfield Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Professor
English
Specialty area(s)
Film Studies and Film Theory; Literature by Women; African American Literature; Drama; Disability Studies; The Woman's Film and Feminist Film Theory
Current courses at UWL
Fall 2024
First-Year Seminar 100: See you at the movies!: The First-Year Experience Through Popular Movies
English 110: College Writing
English 200: Representations of Disability in Literature, Drama, and Film
Education
A.B. English, Bryn Mawr College
M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Career
Teaching history
ENG 110: College Writing
ENG 200: Disability in Literature, Drama, and Film
ENG 200: Adaptations for New Audiences and New Media
English 200: Versions and Conversions: Recycling Stories for New Audiences and Media
ENG 220: Women and Popular Culture
ENG 301: Foundations for Literary Study
ENG 302: Gothic Literature and Culture
ENG 302: Women Writing the Global World
ENG 302: Contemporary African American Literature and Film
English 302: Contemporary Literature by Multiethnic and BIPOC Writers of the US
ENG 312: Literature, Medicine, and Culture
ENG 348: Films and Literature
ENG 349: Drama--Rebooting Classical Greek Drama
ENG 380: Literature of American Ethnic and Minority Cultures
ENG 385: Women Authors
ENG 462: Modern British Drama
ENG 481: Contemporary African American Literature and Film
ENG 482: Women's Coming-of-Age Stories
ENG 482: Women and Hollywood Film--Traditions and Responses
ENG 494: Classical Greek Drama
Research and publishing
Professor Crutchfield has published and presented on topics in disability studies; film studies, adaptation studies; women's, gender and sexuality studies, multicultural literature of the United States, and scholarship on teaching and learning. Some titles are "'Play[ing] her part correctly': Helen Keller as Vaudevillian Freak," "Disability, Isolation, and The Station Agent," "Transposing Jane Eyre: Race, Inheritance, and Identity in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby," "Teaching and Untoothing Howl: Epstein and Friedman's Film Adaptation of Allen Ginsberg's Poem," and "Travel, Terror, and Race Revenge in Laymon's Long Division and Peele's Get Out."
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