Monday, October 16, 2006
Hoeness-Krupsaw is Indiana College English Association Educator of the Year
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Dr. Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, associate professor of English, has been selected as the 2006 Indiana College English Association Educator of the Year. Hoeness-Krupsaw earned her B.A. in English and French from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She joined USI in 1989, teaching rhetoric, composition, literature, language, and humanities courses. She is fluent in three languages and reads in two more. She has published on topics including Ann Petry, E.L. Doctorow, Mary Gordon, Margaret Atwood, Anne Devlin, Elaine Showalter, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jack Kerouac. Her professional conference activities include examinations of Marguerite Duras, Margaret Drabble, Flaubert, Camus, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paule Marshall, Virginia Woolf, and others. She has served on USI’s Graduate Council, Faculty Senate, Honors Symposium, University Assessment and Presidential Scholar Selection committees, and as acting chair of Humanities. Additionally, she has served as a tutor, trainer and board secretary for the Literacy Center. She also has served the ICEA as secretary, vice president, president, and conference organizer. Leisa Belleau, instructor in English, nominated Hoeness-Krupsaw for the award. She said, “Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw is being honored as 2006 Teacher of the Year by ICEA because she represents and demonstrates excellence. As her colleague and friend, I consider no one more deserving of such recognition.” |
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