Dr. Suzy Woltmann has taught a variety of critical writing and contemporary literature courses. She specializes in disability studies, intertextuality, fairy tales, and the novel. Her first book, Woke Cinderella: Twenty-First Century Adaptations, looks at how contemporary fairy tale adaptations re-envision traditional narratives.
Education
- Ph.D., Literature, University of California, San Diego
- M.A., Literature, University of Central Florida
- B.A., Literature, New College of Florida
Courses Taught
- College Composition, Writing & Research - WRI 1010
Experience in Field
- Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
- Instructor, University of California, San Diego
- Teaching Assistant, University of California, San DIego
- Instructor, University of Central Florida
- Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida
Professional and Community Involvement
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- American Folklore Society
- American Literature Association
- Children’s Literature Association
- Literature and Film Association
- Modern Language Association
- Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
- Society for the Study of American Women Writers
- National Women's Studies Association
- Feminist Literary Society
Awards and Honors
AWARDS & GRANTS
- Literature Department Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Foundation for Advancement of Local Writers
- University of Central Florida Graduate Student Award for Excellence
- New College Presidential Scholar
- National Merit Scholarship
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
DISSERTATION
- "What’s Past is Prologue: A Revolutionary Approach to Adaptations Studies"
PUBLICATIONS
- Woke Cinderella: 21st-Century Adaptations, Rowman and Littlefield (endorsed by Dr. Jack Zipes as “provocative and insightful”)
- “The Supernatural and Sexuality in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows,” The Harbour special issue Estranged Realities, Université de Montréal
- “‘Beneath It All Something as Yet Unnamed was Coming into Focus’: A Queer Reading of Malinda Lo’s Ash,” Marvels & Tales 34.2
- “‘This is My Gift to You’: Aesthetic Value and the Search for Utopia in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide,” MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature 4: 14-21
- “Wicked Persons: Wide Sargasso Sea, Witchcraft, and Colonial Law,” The Journal of Dracula Studies
- “‘Transformation is the Rule of Life’: Environment and the Search for Utopia in The Hungry Tide,” Environment and Postcolonialism: A Literary Response, ed. Shubhanku Kochar, Lexington
- “Appetite, Anatomy, and Desire in Caroline Era Poetry and Theatre,” Humanities 8.2 special issue Regulation and Resistance: Gender and Coercive Power in Early Modern Literature: 89-107
- “Annie John, the Postcolonial Palimpsest, and the Limits of Adaptation,” Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4.1: 138-170
- Tidbits: One-Page Stories, Tidbits Writing
- “‘Pointless, Ridiculous Monster’: Monstrous Abjection and Event in ‘The House of Asterion’ and Grendel,” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 9.1
- “Third Gender Agency and Voice: Ideological Diaspora and the Hijra Community,” South Asian Review special issue Growing Up in the Diaspora: South-Asian Children
- “‘I Can't Pass Away from Her’: Adaptation and the Diaristic Impulse of The Wind Done Gone,” The Diary as Literature Through the Lens of Multiculturalism in America, ed. Angela Hooks, Vernon Press
- “Postmodernity in It Follows: Sexuality and Simulacra,” British Fantasy 19: 35-42
- “Stereotypes, Sexuality, and Intertextuality in Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone,” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies 2.2: 28-51
- “‘She Did Not Notice Me’: Gender, Anxiety, and Desire in The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” Humanities 7.4: 104-128
- Cinderella in America: The Evolution of an American Fairy Tale. NCF Collections