Susan Johnston Graf

   Associate Professor
   English Department

Teaching

Literature, Writing, Anglo-Irish Literature, Literature of Occultism

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Kansas; December 1995

Specialization: British Poetry: Doctoral Dissertation: Per Amica Silentia Lunae: The Magical Poetics of W.B. Yeats.

M.A. English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania August 1986; Specialization: Teaching English as a Second Language

M.A. English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania August 1985

B.A. English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania August 1979

Awards & Affiliations

Mont Alto Faculty Scholar Award, The Mont Alto Campus, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2001.

Member, The Modern Language Association

Member, American Conference for Irish Studies

Member, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

Member, British Studies Association

Member, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

Publications

“Joyce’s Mythopoeic Vision: The Development of Stephen Daedalus in Portrait and Ulysses.” In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism. Volume 12. Forthcoming.

“Heterodox Religions in Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Theosophy, the Hermetic Society, and the Castle of Heroes.” Irish Studies Review. 11:1 (April 2003), 51-59.

W. B. Yeats, Twentieth-Century Magus. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000. (Reviewed in The Irish Literary Supplement, A Review of Irish Books. Spring 2001, Volume 20, Number 1.)

"Edward Rowland Sill." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Eric Haralson and John Hollander. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 385-387.

Proficiency-Based Instruction, A Teacher Education Module. Beginning Level Packet. Funded by a Grant from the International Research and Studies Program for the U.S. Dept. of Education. 1985.

Presentations

Panel Chair. “Contemporary Artists in Ireland: American and Irish.” Annual Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Lehman College, Bronx, New York, November 1, 2002.

“A. E., Theosophical Radical.” Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 8, 2002.

“Heterodox Religion in Ireland, 1880-1930.” Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Fordham University, New York, June 7, 2001.

“Reactionary Yeats: Sex Magic, Fascism, and the Old Order.” American Conference for Irish Studies International Meeting, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, June 30, 2000.

“‘Cast Upon Me That Accusing Eye’”:Yeats and Irish Identity.” Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Region, American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 30, 1999.

“Yeats’s Magical Poetics.” Cortland Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland, New York, October 20, 1998.

“Motivating Student Writers.” Commonwealth College English Division Spring Conference on Pedagogy. Hazelton, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1998.

"Yeats and The Celtic Twilight." Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November, 1996.

Session Chair, Analysis of Brown Through His Own Rhetoric. A Multidiscipblinary Symposium, John Brown: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy. The Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto Campus, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, July 1996.

"The Romantic Fin de Siecle: The 1890's According to W.B. Yeats." Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Syracuse, New York, November, 1995.

"Facilitating Revision: A Successful Critique." English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities. Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, October, 1995.

"Moon Magic: Feminist Spirituality in the Novels of Dion Fortune." American/Popular Culture Association. Philadelphia, April,1995

"Feminist Spirituality in the Novels of Dion Fortune." Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Oglebay, West Virginia, October, 1994.