Frances M. Zauhar, Ph.D.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1986. Dissertation Topic: “The Image of Walking in
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fiction.” Director: Lewis P. Simpson.
M.A., English, Louisiana State University, 1979.
B.A., English, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA, 1976.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Dean, Munley College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (MCLAS) and the School of Business and Global
Innovation (SBGI), Scranton, PA, 2012-.
Marywood is a comprehensive (Carnegie Master’s 1), Catholic institution enrolling about 2000
undergraduate and 1200 graduate students. The Dean reports directly to the Provost/Vice President for
Academic Affairs and supervises 55 full-time and 80 part-time faculty who teach undergraduate and
graduate courses in Biology, Chemistry, English, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Mathematics and
Computer Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology and Criminal
Justice, and, in the School of Business, Accounting, Aviation Management, Finance, Health Services
Administration, Management, and Marketing.
Responsibilities include oversight and leadership of college planning, and active leadership and
participation in program strategic planning, program review, program outcomes assessment, budget
development and resource management across MCLAS and SBGI; coordination of programming for and
assessment of the University Undergraduate Core Curriculum; coordination with Departments in hiring
of full-time faculty; annual evaluation of tenure track faculty; promotion and tenure evaluation of faculty
at time of tenure; annual merit evaluations of all full-time faculty (tenure-track, tenured, full-time clinical
and per annum, and pro-rata); planning and managing the budget for the College, the School of Business,
and the individual Departments; advocacy for the programs of the College across the University and with
external constituents. Additional responsibilities: authorized Title IX investigator; Co-Chair, Steering
Committee, Accreditation Self-Study for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
Sample Accomplishments:
• Coordinated and successfully negotiated dual enrollment/reverse enrollment articulation
agreements with Luzerne County Community College and Lackawanna College, both two-year
institutions in the region;
• Led development and implementation of online general education program such that all students
have fully online options for completing the Core Curriculum;
• Coordinated resources for and led development of College Strategic Plan, 2016-2021; initiated and
collaborated with incorporating operational (budget) planning into the planning process;
• Partnered with University Advancement in the process to establish Marywood’s first Endowed
Chair—the Gerod-Schierling Endowed Chair in Science;
• Coordinated research and planning to transition Business Programs in MCLAS into the School of
Business and Global Innovation, housed in MCLAS;
• Led development and implementation of online “Military” MBA program for deployed PA National
Guard in Afghanistan and Iraq—Marywood’s first all-online degree; transitioned online MBA to
civilian cohort model;
• Led development and implementation of new undergraduate degree programs in Computer Science
and Information Security; new graduate program in Information Security (to start in 2017); new
major in Sociology; new major in Professional Writing, with plans to implement Master’s in
Professional Writing in 2018;
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Managed and coordinated hiring process for tenure-track faculty in Business (3 positions), Chemistry
(3), English, History (2), Mathematics and Computer Science (2), Philosophy, and Religious Studies
(2);
Led Core Curriculum Committee through development and implementation of learning outcomes
and assessment rubrics for all programs supporting General Education;
Coordinated implementation of outcomes assessment activities across MCLAS Departments;
Developed and implemented enrollment management practices that put class enrollment at 95%
across the College.
Chair, Humanities Division, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, 2006-2012.
Pitt Johnstown is a comprehensive undergraduate institution enrolling about 3000 full-time students, and
a free-standing regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The Chair reports to the VPAA and
supervises 30 full-time and 20 part-time faculty who taught courses in Communication, Creative and
Professional Writing, English Literature, French, German, and Spanish, Art History, Journalism, Music,
Philosophy, and Theatre.
N.B., because of the administrative structure of the University of Pittsburgh, the regional campuses are
not permitted to use the title of dean for administrators who coordinate and lead broad areas housing
multiple departments. Division Chairs are designated as Administrators in the system, and they have the
administrative and leadership responsibilities of deans.
Responsibilities include oversight of semester course planning and scheduling; coordination with
Departments in hiring of full-time faculty(25-30) and part-time faculty (30); annual merit evaluation of all
faculty; promotion and tenure evaluation of faculty, both annually and at time of tenure; curriculum
development; learning outcomes assessment; active recruiting of new students; planning and managing
the budget for the Division.
Sample Accomplishments:
• Coordinated program reviews for Communications, Writing, and Journalism Departments; all
reviews led to major revisions of programs;
• Coordinated revision of Writing Program to create new track in Professional Writing;
• Led research study on portfolio assessment in First-Year Composition program – reduced failure rate
from 10% to 5% of cohort;
• Led hiring process for tenure-track faculty in Communication (4 positions), English Literature (1),
Creative and Professional Writing (3), Philosophy (1) and Theatre Arts (2); for full-time visiting
positions in Communication (1), Creative and Professional Writing (2), Freshman Composition (3),
Philosophy (1), and Foreign Languages (1); and numerous part-time positions;
• Coordinated and presented successful applications for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
for all applicants applying during my tenure;
• Led development and implementation of outcomes assessment program and process for all nine
major programs;
• Coordinated with Development Office to double the percentage of alumni making contributions;
successfully proposed instruments for major gifts for support of the arts programs in the Division.
Chair, English Department, English Department, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, 1996-2004.
Saint Vincent is a Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college enrolling about 1800 undergraduate students.
The Chair reports to the Provost (later VPAA) and supervises 5 full-time and 4-7 part-time faculty.
Responsibilities include oversight of semester course planning and scheduling; hiring of part-time
faculty; annual evaluation of tenure track faculty; promotion and tenure evaluation of faculty at time of
tenure; planning and managing the budget for the Department; advocacy for the Department within the
College.
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Sample Accomplishments:
• Led program reviews that developed and implemented writing track in the major;
• Organized and implemented process of portfolio assessment for learning outcomes in the major;
• Worked with Admission office to develop and implement recruitment plan to increase number of
majors—doubled the number of students majoring in English;
• Worked with University Advancement to increase outreach to alumni; doubled participation of
English alumni;
• Increased profile of student scholarship in the Department: organized chartering of Sigma Tau Delta
Chapter in the Department;
• Coordinated and wrote Self-Study documents for Departmental reviews for Middle States (1994-1995;
2005-2006) and NCATE.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Dean, MCLAS, tenured in English, Marywood, 2012Humanities Division Chair, tenured in English, Pitt Johnstown, 2006-2012
Founding Coordinator, Creative Writing Program, SVC, 2004-2006
Director, Honors Program, SVC, 2002-2003
Chair, Department of English, SVC, 1996-2004
Acting Chair, Department of English, SVC, Fall 1994
Associate Professor, with tenure, English Department, SVC, 1994-2006
Assistant Professor, English Department, SVC, 1991-1994 (tenure track)
Assistant Professor, English Department, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, 1986-1991 (tenure track)
Director, Women’s Studies Program, GAC, 1989-1991
Assistant Professor, Yellowstone Park Campus, Northwest Community College, Powell WY, Summer 1990
Instructor, English Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1985-1986
Graduate Teaching Assistant, LSU, 1984-1985, 1981-1983, 1977-1980 (renewable teaching award)
Graduate Research Assistant, LSU, 1983-1984 (one-year, non-renewable award)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Rhetoric Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fall 1980 (renewable
award)
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Founding Sponsor, Pitt Johnstown Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, 20092012
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, the International University Honor Society, Pitt Johnstown, 2008Founding Advisor, SVC Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, 2000-2006
Sabbatical Leave, Fall 1999, SVC
Faculty Development Research Fund Grant for Summer Research Project, “Culmination of a Tradition: Willa
Cather and the Authority of Influence,” Saint Vincent College, June-August 1996
Faculty Development Research Fund Grant for Summer Research Project, “Lydia Sigourney and Harriet
Beecher Stowe and the Profession of Letters in the 19th Century,” SVC, June-August 1994
Faculty Development Research Fund Grant for Summer Research Project, “Early-American Women Writers
and the Literary Tradition,” SVC, June-August, 1993
Faculty Development Research Fund Grant for Summer Research Project, “Jewett, Reading, and Literary
Tradition,” SVC, June and August, 1992
Koppelman Award, presented for the outstanding edited book of 1993 by the Women’s Caucus of the
Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, for The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical
Literary Criticism
Faculty Development Grant course development for EL 102 Language and Rhetoric; support for integrating
work with the Macintosh computer lab into the first-year writing course, SVC, Summer 1991
Bush Scholar: Group Faculty Development Grant (includes release time) for Multi-Cultural Studies (research
project: revising EN 19 American Literature to 1860 and EN 20 American Literature since 1860 to include
multi-cultural perspectives and more minority authors), Gustavus Adolphus College, Spring 1991
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Bush Scholar: Faculty Development Grant (research project: Developing Methods and Materials for
Adolescent Literature; partial development for EN 97 Methods and Materials for Secondary Teachers),
GAC, Summer 1989
Bush Scholar: Faculty Development Grant (research project: American Women Writers before 1860), GAC,
Summer 1987
Faculty Development Grant for summer study: partial development for CU 35 The Visual Experience, GAC,
Summer 1990
GRANT-WRITING/GRANT ADMINISTRATION:
“STEM Education Partnerships in Northeastern Pennsylvania,” The Woodrow Wilson National Foundation,
STEM Fellowship Program, Co-Principal Investigator, submitted April 2015, pending ($500,000);
“Integrating V/vocation exploration between the Core Curriculum and Major Disciplines at Marywood
University,” Council of Independent Colleges Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (CIC
NetVUE), Principal Investigator, January 2014-December 2015, Funded: $40,000.
“Multidisciplinary Student-Faculty Learning: A Follow-Up Project,” University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
Faculty Development Resource Grant, Secondary Investigator, May 2011-April 2012.
“Developing a Multidisciplinary Student-Faculty Learning Community at Pitt Johnstown,” University of
Pittsburgh Innovations in Education Grant, Secondary Investigator, May 2009-April 2010.
“Revising the Freshman Writing Course,” University of Pittsburgh Innovations in Education Grant,
secondary investigator, principal administrator, May 2007-April 2008.
“Writing the Watershed: Nature Writing and Environmental Awareness,” SVC Interdisciplinary Summer
Research Program on AMD and the Watershed, May-August 2005 (grant from the PA DEP).
“Writing a Restored Environment: Oral Histories of Environmental Volunteers in Southwestern
Pennsylvania,” SVC Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program: Scientific, Social, Economic, and
Cultural Aspects of Watershed Restoration, Secondary Investigator, 21 May 2001-3 August 2001 (grant
from the Lancy Foundation).
“Incorporating Instructional Technology into courses for Pre-service Teachers: Modeling use of instructional
technologies in the English Language Arts,” SVC Link-to Learn Project, Secondary Investigator, 1999-2002
(grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education).
“Assessment of Students’ Writing Skills related to Student participation in the SVC Interdisciplinary Writing
Program,” co-author, and Principal Investigator, 1993-1996 ($60,000, from the Kennametal Foundation).
“World War II Women Veterans Oral History Project,” Co-Author and Principal Investigator, 1992-1993
($10,000, from the Pennsylvania Historical Preservation Commission).
“American Fictions: The Pulitzer-Prize for Fiction and the ‘Topic’ of American Culture,” 5-part series funded
by the PA Humanities Council, Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA, Fall-Winter 2005.
“Willa Cather’s Novels about Artists,” 6-part series funded by the PA Humanities Council, Adams Memorial
Library, Latrobe, PA, Spring-Summer 2005.
“’Tulips, Pearls, and Passion’: Contemporary Novels and Renaissance Artists,” 6-part series funded by the PA
Humanities Council, Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA, Spring-Summer 2004.
PUBLICATIONS:
Essay, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs and the Community of American Authorship,” in
the anthology, Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences, edited by Roxanne Harde,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. pp. 411-431.
Essay, “Violent Art, Sacred Art: Artists and Sacrifice in Willa Cather,” in Violence, Art, and Willa Cather,
Merrill Skaggs and Joseph Urgo, editors, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007.
Essay, “Ethnic Writers, ‘Thick Description,’ and American Literary Naturalism,” Teaching American Literatures:
A Journal of Theory and Practice, 1.1 (Winter 2007).
Essays, “John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent,” “John Steinbeck’s The Pearl,” “John Steinbeck’s
American and Americans,” John Steinbeck’s The Log from The Sea of Cortez,” in Steinbeck A to Z, edited by
Jeffrey Schultz, Facts on File/Gale Research, 2005.
Review Essay, “Beyond the Godfather: Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience,” edited by
Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini, MELUS 24.3 (Fall 1999): 190-192.
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Essay, “Elizabeth Ann Seton,” American Women Prose Writers to 1820 , Volume 200 of The Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Carla Mulford, Amy Winans, et al, editors, Gale Research, 1998.
Review essay, “Boria Sax’s The Parliament of Animals, NILAS Review, Spring 1997.
Book, Out of the Kitchen: Oral Histories of World War II Women Veterans of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Center for
Northern Appalachian Studies, 1994.
Book, The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, co-edited with Olivia Frey and Diane Freedman,
Duke University Press, 1992.
Essay, “Creative Voices: Women Reading and Women’s Writing,” in The Intimate Critique, Duke University
Press, 1992.
Review essay, “Adeline Tintner’s The Book World of Henry James, and The Pop World of Henry James,” The Henry
James Review, Fall 1990.
PRESENTATIONS:
“Restructuring the Unit – Lessons in How to Survive,” presented at the Annual Meeting, Council of Colleges
of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), Washington, DC, November 4-7, 2015.
“‘The loveliest of all their sex’: Vestiges of the Gibson Girl in Willa Cather’s Fiction,” presented at the 2011
International Willa Cather Seminar, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 20-25 June, 2011.
“’Counselors as well as Companions’: Expertise and Apprenticeship(s) in John McPhee’s Annals of the Former
World,” presented at the Conference of the PA College English Association, Erie, PA, 24-26 March, 2011.
“Richard Russo’s Empire Falls and the Design of Literary History,” presented at the Conference of the College
English Association, Pittsburgh, PA 26-28 March 2009.
“Senior Seminar/Junior Seminar in English,” part of the Session, Revising the English Major, presented at the
Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, 17-19 November 2005.
“Building a Program in Creative Writing,” part of the Session, Revising the English Major, presented at the
Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, 17-19 November 2005.
“Violent Art, Sacred Art: Artists and Sacrifice in Willa Cather,” presented at the 10th International Willa
Cather Seminar, Red Cloud and Lincoln, NE, June 2005.
“Chairing a Smaller Department,” presented at the Workshop for New Chairs, ADE Summer Seminar for
Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Cooperstown, NY, June 2002.
“Balancing Teaching, Research, and Chairing a Small Department,” Report from the Working Group for
BA/MA-granting Departments with 11 or fewer Members, ADE Summer Seminar for Department
Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Cooperstown, NY, June 2002.
“’. . . three light footprints, running away’: Memory and Nature in Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark and
Lucy Gayheart,” presented at the 8th International Willa Cather Seminar, Nebraska City, NE, June 2000.
“Mortal Voice/Woman’s Voice: Poetic Inspiration in Paradise Lost and Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum,” presented
at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, 14-16 October 1999.
“Teaching Milton to Undergraduates,” presented at a session of the Northeast Modern Language Association
Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 16-17 April 1999.
“Early Modern Women Writers: the Individual and the Tradition,” Coordinator and respondent, a session at
the Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, 6-8 November 1997.
“The Lost Huswifery of the Past: Lydia Sigourney’s Lucy Howard’s Journal,” presenter and respondent, at the
session, “The Uses of Domesticity,” presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting,
Chicago, IL, 6-8 November 1997.
“Teaching the Environment: Environmental Studies Programs at Saint Vincent College,” Coordinator and
Presenter, at the Conference, “Benedictine Perspectives on the Environment,” Benedictine College,
Atchinson, KS, 4 October 1997.
“‘Because I am No Wollstonecraft’: Mary Wollstonecraft in America,” presented at the Meeting of the South
Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Edward, OK, 27 February - March 1, 1997.
“Canonizing Early Modern Women Writers,” Coordinator and convener, a special session at the Midwest
Modern Language Association Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 4-7 November 1996.
“Sarah Orne Jewett and American Literary Tradition,” presented at the Conference of the Modern Language
Association, San Diego, CA, 27-30 December 1994.
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“‘Velcro Education’: Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, and Critical Thinking,” presented at the 14th
International Conference on Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, 31 July-3
August 1994.
“‘The History of Maria Kittle’: A Revolutionary Captivity Narrative,” presented at the session,
“Representations of War: Gender Religion, and Race,” at the Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language
Association, 4-6 November 1993, Minneapolis, MN.
“From Femme Covert to Public Thinker: The Literary Odyssey of Sarah Wentworth Morton,” presented at the
session, “Wo/men’s Voices in 18th and 19th-Century Literature,” at the Meeting of the Midwest Modern
Language Association, 4-6 November 1993, Minneapolis, MN.
“Ann Eliza Bleecker and the Language of Emotions,” presented at the Conference of the Midwest American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21-23 October 1993, Milwaukee, WI.
“‘While I Am No Wollstonecraft . . .’ Early American Women Writers and A Vindication of the Rights of
Women,” presented at the Session, “The Bicentennial of A Vindication of the Rights of Women: A Celebration
and Assessment,” at the Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 5-7 November 1992, St.
Louis, MO.
“In Different Voices: Race and Class Differences in Women’s Writing,” session respondent, at the Meeting of
the Midwest Modern Language Association, 5-7 November 1992, St. Louis, MO.
“Teaching Diversity in the Midst of Resistance: Early American Women Writers and Later Literary Critics,”
presented at the 1992 Tri-State Women’s Studies Conference, 4 April 1992, Seton Hill College,
Greensburg, PA.
“The Remembrance of Memory in James Welch’s Fools Crow,” presented at the Native American Literature
Session at the Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, November 1991, Chicago, IL.
“The ‘School of Philenia’: Women Writers and Early American Literature” presented at the Meeting of the
Midwest Association of Eighteenth-Century Studies, October 1991, Kansas City, MO.
Respondent and session co-organizer, Conference Session, “Autobiography and Feminist Criticism,”
presented at the Conference, “Cultural Studies Across the Disciplines in the 1990s,” sponsored by the
Oklahoma Project on Discourse and Theory, 19-21 October 1990, Norman, OK.
Respondent, Special Session, “In Our Own Voices: Feminine Forms of Literary Criticism,” presented at the
Conference of the Modern Language Association, 27-30 December 1989, Washington, DC.
“The Suppression of Memory in The Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” presented at the
Early American Literature Session, Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 2-4
November 1989, Minneapolis MN.
“Creating Herself: Women Editors of Anthologies of Women's Writings,” presented at the session,
“‘Masculine’ and ‘Feminine’ Discourse in Modern Literary Criticism,” Conference of the Midwest
Modern Language Association, 3-5 November 1988, St. Louis, MO.
“The Ambiguities of Independence: Hannah Foster's The Coquette”" presented at the Conference of the
Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, 14-15 April 1988, St. Paul, MN.
“Hawthorne and the Folk on ‘Main-Street’: A Survey of Attitudes,” presented at the Third Annual Meeting of
the Mid-America American Studies Association, May 1-3, 1987, St. Paul, MN.
“Teaching Southern Writers Outside their Region,” presented at the Conference of the Midwest Councils of
Teachers of English, April 23-25, 1987, Fargo, ND.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
“‘The loveliest of all their sex’: Gibson Girls in A Lost Lady and ‘The Old Beauty,’” examines Cather’s revisions
to her earlier use of the Gibson Girl icon in A Lost Lady (1923) and “The Old Beauty” (1937); revision of
conference paper for print submission.
“’one for solitude, two for friendship . . .’: Sociable Dimensions of the Wild in American Nature Writing,”
examines the use of social metaphors for relationship to nature in early and contemporary American
Nature writing.
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INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:
Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Accreditation Self-Study, in preparation for renewal of Accreditation by the
Middle States Commission of Higher Education (MSCHE), MU, Fall-2012-Fall 2016.
Director, Greater Expectations Mentoring Program for New Faculty, Marywood University (MU), Fall 2013Member, Academic Council, MU, 2012Member, Dean’s Council, MU, 2012Member, University Policy Committee, MU, 2012-; Chair, 2015-2016
Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, MU, 2012Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, MU, 2012Member, Core Curriculum Committee, MU, 2012Member, Outcomes Assessment Committee, MU, 2012Member, Marywood Planning Advisory Committee (MPAC), MU, 2012Authorized Title IX Investigator, MU, 2012Chair, Humanities Division, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, 2006-2012.
Member, Academic Council, Pitt Johnstown, 2006-2012.
Member, Planning Committee, Provost’s New Chairs’ Orientation, University of Pittsburgh, Summer-October
2011.
Member, Planning Committee, Provost’s Department Chair’s Retreat, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2011.
Humanities Division Representative, Pitt Johnstown Alumni Association/Career Services, Majors and
Careers Exploration Fair, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, November 2010.
Member, Peer Review Committee for Dr. John Prellwitz, Application for Tenure and Promotion to Associate
Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh Greensburg, Fall 2010.
Reviewer, Grant Application of Dr. Amanda Thein, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh, Spring
2010.
Member, Peer Review Committee for Dr. Elisa Beshero Bonder, Application for Tenure and Promotion to
Associate Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh Greensburg, Fall 2009.
Member, Planning Committee, Provost’s Department Chair’s Retreat, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2009;
Member, Provost’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Concerns, University of Pittsburgh, 2008-2011,
reappointed 2011-; Benchmarking Sub-Committee, 2008-2009; Agenda Subcommittee, 2009-2010.
Co-Chair, Working Group on Curriculum Planning, Pitt Johnstown President’s Task Force on Global
Education, October 2007-March 2008.
Member, Pitt Johnstown President’s Task Force on Global Education, October 2007-March 2008.
Presenter, “Literary Markers of Global Warming,” Global Warming Solutions Forum@Pitt Johnstown,
January 31, 2008.
Humanities Division Representative, Pitt Johnstown Education Division Secondary Education Advisory
Board, 2008-2012.
Member, Planning Committee, Global Warming Solutions Forum@Pitt Johnstown, local activity in
conjunction with Focus the Nation, September 2007-January 2008.
Member, Planning Committee, Provost’s New Chair’s Orientation, Summer-October 2007.
Elected Member, University of Pittsburgh University Senate Library Committee, 2007-2010; re-elected, 20102013.
Member, General Education Committee, Pitt Johnstown, 2006-2012.
Member, International Studies Advisory Committee, Pitt Johnstown, 2006-2010.
Member, President’s Scholars’ Program Planning Committee, 2006-2007.
Member, Peer Review Committee for Dr. Susan Lu, Application for Tenure and Promotion to Associate
Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh Greensburg, Fall 2006.
Member, Middle States Self-Study Steering Committee, SVC, 2005-2006; Chair, Resources Task Force.
Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, SVC, 2005-2006.
Member, Academic Leadership and Scholarly Affairs Committee of Faculty Council, SVC, 2003-2006.
Member, Freshman Seminar Faculty, SVC, 2002-2006.
Chair, Standing Committee on the Core Curriculum, SVC, 2002-2003.
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Member, Educational Policies Committee, SVC, 2001-2003.
Member, College Teacher Education Committee, SVC, 1997-2006.
Member, Instructional Technology Committee, SVC, 1996-2006.
Team Leader, Teacher Enhancement Institute Summer Program for Secondary Teachers, SVC, 1996-1998.
Member, Interdisciplinary Writing Program, SVC, 1994-2006.
Member, Common Texts Project, SVC, 1993-2006 (Steering Committee, 1996-2006).
Faculty Volunteer, Annual Spring Phonothon, Development Office, SVC, 1993-1996.
Member, College Sesquicentennial Planning Committee, SVC, 1993-1996.
Member, Faculty Compensation Committee, SVC, 1992-2000, 2003-2004 (Chairperson, 1993-1995).
Member, Physical Resources Work Group, Self-Study Task Force, Middle States Accreditation Review, Spring
1997.
Member, Faculty Council, SVC, 1992-94, 1994-1996 2003-2004(Chair, Handbook Committee, 1992-94; Council
President, 1994-96; Executive Secretary, 2003-2004).
Member, Honors Program Committee, SVC, 1992-1994, 1996-2003.
Member, Health Professions Recommendation Committee, SVC, Spring 1992-1999.
Faculty Mentor, Teacher Enhancement Mentoring Program (TEMP), SVC, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, 1997- 1998,
1999- 2000, 2004-2005.
Team Coordinator, BRIDGES Environmental Studies Program (the team plans, teaches, and facilitates cooperative interdisciplinary programs with area high schools and area industries, providing development
and resources for enrichment programs for college-bound high-school students), SVC, Spring and
Summer 1995, Team Member, 1993-1996.
Faculty Volunteer, Admissions Get Acquainted Days, SVC, 1991-2006.
Faculty Advisor, First-Year Student Registration, SVC, Summers 1991-1998.
Member, Honorary Degrees Committee, SVC, 1991-94, 1998-99(Chair, 1992-1994).
Coordinator, Women’s Studies Symposium, English Department and Women’s Studies Program, GAC,
Spring 1991.
Founding Member, Women’s Studies Faculty Committee, GAC, 1987-1991.
Humanities Division Representative, Academic Policy and Programs Committee, GAC, 1987-1990, 1990-1991:
Secretary, 1987-1988, 1988-89, 1990-91; Member, Teacher Education Subcommittee, 1987-1990, Chair,
1990-91; Chair, Special Programs Subcommittee, 1989-1990.
Affirmative Action/EEO Representative, Education Department Search Committee, GAC, Spring 1991.
Affirmative Action/EEO Representative, Political Science Department Search Committee, Spring 1989.
Member, Medieval/Renaissance Search Committee, English Department, GAC, Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
Extra-departmental member, Committee for review of part-time faculty, Music Department, GAC, Spring
1988
Affirmative Action/EEO Representative, Psychology Department Search Committee, GAC, Spring 1988
Member, English/Language Arts/Education Licensure Committee, GAC, 1986-1987
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Annual Meeting and Conference, Middle States Commission of Higher Education (MSCHE), Washington,
DC, December 2-4, 2015.
Annual Meeting, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), Washington, DC, November 4-7, 2015.
Biennial Meeting, The Council of Independent Colleges Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
(CIC NetVUE), St. Louis, MO, March 26-28, 2015.
Annual Meeting and Conference, Middle States Commission of Higher Education (MSCHE), Washington,
DC, December 3-5, 2014.
Self-Study Institute, MSCHE, Philadelphia, PA, November 20-22, 2013.
Annual Meeting and Conference, MSCHE, Philadelphia, PA, December 2-4, 2012.
Department Chairs’ Retreat, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh, March 17, 2012
Department Chairs’ Retreat, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh, March 21, 2011
Department Chairs’ Retreat, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh, March 19, 2009
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Department Chairs’ Retreat, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh, March 20, 2007
New Chairs’ Workshop, Office of the Provost, University of Pittsburgh, October 17, 2006
ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Cooperstown, NY, June 2002 (Discussion
Leader: Workshop for New Chairs; Discussion Leader: Workshop for BA/MA-granting Departments
with 11 or fewer Members)
ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Bethlehem, PA, June 2001 (Discussion
Leader: Workshop for BA/MA-granting Departments with 11 or fewer Members)
ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Chicago, IL, June 2000
Workshop, “Teaching Teenagers to Write,” NCTE, Orlando FL, 24-26 June 1999
ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Lowell, MA, June 1998 (Discussion Leader:
Workshop for BA/MA-granting Departments with 11 or fewer Members)
ADE Summer Seminar for Department Chairpersons, MLA/ADE, Traverse City, MI, 12-15 June 1997
NEH Summer Institute on John Milton, John T. Shawcross and Peter Medine, Directors, University of
Arizona, June 21-July 31, 1992
Institute on Teaching Critical Thinking, Faculty Development Resource Association, Pittsburgh, PA, February
1992
New Faculty Institute, FDRA, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1991
NEH Summer Seminar, “The Theory of American Romance,” Edgar Dryden, director, The University of
Arizona, Tucson, 13 June-5 August 1988
Visiting Scholar, Women's Studies Program, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Summer 1987
TEACHING INTERESTS:
American literature; Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States; American Indian literatures; Women’s
literature and women’s studies; English and language arts education; Rhetoric and Composition instruction
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
(italics = courses I developed)
ENGCMP 0005 Composition 1, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, 3 semesters
ENGCMP 0006 Composition 2, Pitt Johnstown, 4 semesters
ENGLIT 0088 Introduction to Literature, Pitt Johnstown, 1 semester
ENGLIT 0345 Literature and the Environment, Pitt Johnstown, 2 semesters
ENGLIT 0365 Literature and the Contemporary: American Indian Literatures, Pitt Johnstown, 1 semester (first offered
at Pitt Johnstown by me)
ENGLIT 0574 American Literary Traditions 1, Pitt Johnstown, 1 semester
ENGLIT 0575 American Literary Traditions 2, Pitt Johnstown, 5 semesters
ENGLIT 0616 Immigrant Experience, Pitt Johnstown, 2 semesters (first offered at Pitt Johnstown by me)
ENGLIT 1256 20th-Century American Literature, Pitt Johnstown, 1 semester
ENGLIT 1360 American Environmental Writers, Pitt Johnstown, 1 semester
ENGLIT 1420 Modern American Dramatists, Pitt Johnstown, 2 semesters
EL 101 Basic Grammar and Composition, Opportunity/Act 101, Saint Vincent College, 6 semesters
EL 102 Language and Rhetoric, SVC, 25 semesters
EL 103 Principles of Literature, SVC, 7 semesters
EL 104 Major American and British Authors, SVC, 2 semesters
EL 111 Green Writing: Literature and the Environment, SVC, 6 semesters
EL 113 Women and Literature, SVC, 6 semesters
EL 200 Literary Criticism I: Ancient to Moderns, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 201 Literary Criticism II: Contemporary Theories, SVC, 8 semesters
EL 232 The Novel, SVC, 5 semesters
EL 234 Young Adult Fiction, SVC, 7 semesters
EL 238 Dramatic Literature, SVC, 3 semesters
Zauhar CV - 10
EL 240 American Studies I, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 241 American Studies II, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 251 Native American Literature, SVC, 5 semesters
EL 255 Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, SVC, 2 semesters
EL 259 Modern Drama, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 281 Media and Culture: The Cultural Construction of Values, SVC, 2 semesters
EL 289 Feminist Studies, SVC, 2 semesters
EL 313 16th-Century Literature, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 315 Shakespeare: Comedies and Tragedies, SVC, 7 semesters
EL 316 17th-Century Literature, SVC, 6 semesters
EL 400 Senior Seminar, SVC, 3 semesters
EL 350 Independent Study, various topics, including: Abraham Lincoln in the work of his contemporaries;
Adolescent Literature; Biography and Autobiography; Contemporary Women Writers; George Herbert’s
Poetry; Reading and Writing Autobiography; Teaching Children’s Literature; The Chinese Monkey King
Myth in American Literature; The Novels of Willa Cather
ED 301 Teaching of English, 7-12, SVC, 4 semesters
ED 309 Teaching of Grammar and Writing, 7-12, SVC, 1 semester
CU 35 The Visual Perspective (Curriculum II), Gustavus Adolphus College, 1 semester
CU 40 Curriculum II Writing Seminar, GAC, 1 semester
EN 01 Reading and Writing/Freshman Seminar, GAC, 8 semesters
EN 10 Masterworks of English and American Literature, GAC, 1 semester
EN 11j Baseball and Literature, GAC, 1 January term
EN 17 Appreciation of Drama, GAC, 1 semester
EN 19 American Literature to 1860, GAC, 8 semesters
EN 20 American Literature Since 1860, GAC, 1 semester
EN 21 American Women Writers to 1900, GAC, 3 semesters
EN 28j Native American Literature, GAC, 1 January term
EN 48j Contemporary American Women Writers, 2 January terms and 1 summer term
EN 55 The American Novel, GAC, 1 summer term
EN 58 The Age of Hawthorne, GAC, 1 semester (formerly EN 85)
EN 61 Independent Study: Independent and Studio Films in Contemporary America, GAC, 3 semesters
EN 61 Independent Study: Writing Children’s Literature, GAC, 1 semester
EN 73 Milton, GAC, 1 semester
EN 85 Emerson and Hawthorne, GAC, 1 January term and 3 semesters
EN 97 Methods and Materials for Secondary Teachers, GAC, 2 semesters
EN 99 Senior Seminar: Rediscovering American Women Writers, GAC, 1 semester
EN 295 Regional Literature: The West, Northwest College, 1 summer term
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Catholic Education, National Catholic Education Association, 2013Fellow, Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, SVC, 1991-present
Editorial Staff, The Henry James Review, LSU, 1983-1985
Business Manager, The Southern Review, LSU, Summer 1983
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Volunteer, Community Food Bank, St. Paul’s Parish, Scranton, PA, 2015Lector and Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, St. Paul’s Parish, Scranton, PA, 2012Lector and Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, Our Lady of Grace Parish, Greensburg, PA, 20012012
Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “American Fictions: The Pulitzer-Prize for Fiction and the ‘Topic’ of
American Culture,” underwritten by the PA Humanities Council, Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA,
Fall 2005-Summer 2006
Zauhar CV - 11
Invited Lecturer, “Vermeer’s Paintings in Recent Fiction,” Latrobe Women’s Club, Latrobe, PA, May 2005
Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Willa Cather’s Novels About Artists,” underwritten by the PA Humanities
Council, Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA, Spring-Summer 2005; “’Tulips, Pearls, and Passion’:
Contemporary Novels and Renaissance Artists,” underwritten by the PA Humanities Council, Adams
Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA, Spring-Summer 2004; “Native American Writers,” Adams Memorial
Library, Latrobe, PA, Fall 2003; Steinbeck Centennial Book Discussion Series, Greensburg-Hempfield
Area Library, Greensburg, PA, underwritten by GHAL, The Steinbeck Centennial, and NEH, SummerFall 2002; “Classic American Writers,” Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe, PA, Spring 2002;
“Pennsylvania Writers Series,” underwritten by PA Humanities Council, Adams Memorial Library,
Latrobe, PA, Summer-Fall 2001;
MEMBERSHIPS (current):
American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD)
Council for Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
MEMBERSHIPS (past):
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Association for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS)
Midwest Modern Language Association 1986-1998 (MMLA--Chair, Native American Literature Section, 1988,
1991; Chair, American Literature I Section, 1996)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), College Section, English Education Section