About Me

Kirsten Schuhmacher (pronounced like Kurstin Shoemocker)

kschuhmacher.com

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