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Susan Schaper

Dr. Schaper teaches courses in modern British literature, including topics courses focusing on Victorian fiction, nineteenth-century crime literature, and the literature of World War I.  She also regularly participates in an interdisciplinary, team-taught course in London.  Her area of specialization is Victorian studies, with particular interests in ghost stories and children's literature.

Resources for Students

• Nineteenth-Century British Resources

Published Articles and Reviews

• “Victorian Ghostbusting: Gendered Authority in the Middle-Class Home” Victorian Newsletter 100 (2001): 6-13.
• Rev. Of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural by Vanessa D. Dickerson. Victorian Studies 42 (2000). 677-679.

Conference Presentations and Chaired Sessions

• Organized and Chaired special topics session, "Practical Approaches to Teaching Literary Studies Abroad," RMMLA, October 12-14, 2006, Tucson, Arizona, and October 9-11, 2008, Reno, Nevada.
• "The Twenty-first Century Grand Tour," RMMLA, October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
• “The Haunted Sphere: Gendered Constructions of Virtue and Home in Victorian Ghost Stories,” Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University, April 2001.

Leadership Positions

• Director of the Gipson Honors Program at The College of Idaho.

Whitby Abbey, Dracula Setting