Biography:
About Me
Kirsten Schuhmacher (pronounced like Kurstin Shoemocker)
Teaching
UC Davis
ENL 40- Becoming Plant (Fall 2023)
ENL 52- Pop Culture Shakespeare (Summer 2022, Summer 2023)
ENL 3- Introduction to Literature (Winter 2022- current)
UWP 1/UWP 1y- Introduction to reading and writing (Fall 2020- Spring 2022)
UWP 1A-Writers Workshop (Spring 2023)
Truckee Meadows Community College
ENG 96- Entry Level Writing (Fall 2020)
ENG 101- Introduction to Literature I (Spring 2021)
ENG 102- Introduction to Literature II (Spring 2021)
Education
PhD, University of California at Davis, current | English Literature, designated emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric and Composition
MA, University of Victoria, 2019 | English Literature, emphasis in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)
BA, University of Nevada, Reno, 2017 | English Language and Literature and Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Environmental Studies | Magna cum Laude
Recent Awards and Publications
Co-edited (with Dr. Tiffany Jo Werth) special issue of Spenser Studies Online: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/50.3.4/
Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies Erasmus Prize; "University of Victoria McPherson Library's 1610 Actes and Monuments: A Users' Guide; " co-written with Colin Keohane.
Quoted to be the "Best damn graduate student paper" (via Twitter- https://mobile.twitter.com/UVicEnglGrad/status/1208172822318571520)
Professional Organizations
Oecologies: Graduate student liason https://oecologies.com/
UCHRI Funded project on "sea": RA
Selected Conference Talks
Schuhmacher, Kirsten. “Where Terrestrial Poles Meet: The Liminality of World-Building.” ASLE, 26-30 June 2019, University of California, Davis; Davis, CA. Conference Presentation.
Keohane, Colin and Kirsten Schuhmacher. “University of Victoria McPherson Library’s 1610 Actes and Monuments: A Users’ Guide.” CSRS (Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies), 1-3 June 2019, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Conference Presentation.
Schuhmacher, Kirsten. “’Wretched man, wretched tree:’ Navigating Post-Human Reality in The Faerie Queene.” PAMLA co-conference with ASLE, 10 November 2018, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Conference Presentation