Background
Suzan Harrison was born on June 27, 1956, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
Suzan Harrison received a Bachelor’s degree in literature with honors from Eckerd College in 1978.
Suzan Harrison received a Master’s degree in English from Florida State University in 1981.
Suzan Harrison received a Doctorate degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988.
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The author examines the ways in which Eudora Welty assimilates and transforms in each of her major novels the concerns she inherited from Virginia Woolf. Drawing on Mikhail Bahktin's theories of the novel and his concept of dialogism, as well as various feminist theoretical perspectives, the author describes Woolf's influence on Welty as a creative, awakening force that led to her development as an artist. Each chapter considers a pair of novels, one by each writer, and explores both the dialogues between the two and the strategies both use to appropriate and revise traditional European based masculine discourse.
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1997
Suzan Harrison was born on June 27, 1956, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
Suzan Harrison received a Bachelor’s degree in literature with honors from Eckerd in 1978 and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in English from Florida State University in 1981 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, respectively.
Suzan Harrison joined Eckerd in 1989. During her tenure as a Professor of Rhetoric, she has chaired the Letters and Foundations Collegia and has served as Associate Dean of Faculty, covering a variety of responsibilities, most recently, leading the College's efforts to reaffirm accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities. Associate Dean Harrison was appointed Acting Dean of Faculty in June 2012. She assumed the considerable duties of the Dean's role in addition to her ongoing work leading the process for revising Eckerd's general education program.
Suzan Harrison authored Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf: Gender, Genre and Influence (Louisiana State University Press, 1997), and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and essay collections.
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1997Suzan Harrison is known for strong advocacy of academic programs and values.
Quotations:
"College should challenge the set of beliefs you arrive with. That's part of the point of college, to expose you to new ideas, some of which will make you uncomfortable."
"I believe that our faculty and our students are best served when research and scholarship are supported, when faculty professional development is encouraged and nurtured, allowing individual professors to bring into the classroom the intellectual passion and excitement that attracted us to this profession in the first place. As Dean of Faculty, I embrace a collaborative model of leadership and see my role as an opportunity to work with the faculty of Eckerd College to develop and nurture the academic program and to create a vibrant and engaged intellectual community."
Modern Language Association of America , United States
College English Association , United States
National Council of Teachers of English , United States
Society for the Study of Southern Literature , United States
Society for Values in Higher Education , United States
Eudora Welty Society , United States
South Atlantic Modern Language Association , United States
Southeastern Women’s Studies Association , United States
International Narrative Association
Suzan Harrison is a visionary administrator capable of consensus-building, and a diligent and thoughtful colleague.