Susannah Mintz
Professor
B.A., UC Berkeley
M.F.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., Rice University
Office: Palamountain 324
Phone: (518) 580-5169
Email: smintz@skidmore.edu
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
Scholarly essays in: Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, PMLA, Milton Studies, Life Writing, biography, National Women’s 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’s 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, 2-volume encyclopedia, co-advising with G. Thomas Couser
Selected honors and awards:
- Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XLII (2018), for “White Matter”
- Ralph Ciancio Award for Excellence in Teaching, Skidmore College (2017)
- Finalist, Epiphany chapbook contest (2015), for Paper Cranes
- Winner, South Loop Review National Essay Contest (2014), for “False Starts”
- Notable Essay mention, Best American Essays 2010, for “Dirty Little Secret of Sabbatical”
- Finalist, William Allen Nonfiction Prize, The Journal (2010), for “Vanishings”
