DANA SCHUMACHER-SCHMIDT

Assistant Professor of English

Siena Heights University
dschumac@sienaheights.edu
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota
Ph.D in English, 2014
Dissertation: Monuments of Truth: Domesticity, Memory, and Politics in the English
Civil Wars and Restoration
Committee: John Watkins, Rebecca Krug, Katherine Scheil, Ruth Karras
Stetson University, Deland, Florida
B.A. in English, minor in Womens and Gender Studies, Honors Program, summa cum
laude, 2006
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature and drama, in historical contexts; women
writers; Civil Wars and Restoration; domesticity; memory and history; Shakespeare; Milton;
medieval literature and culture.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of English, Siena Heights University
Assistant Professor
ENG 395: Research (preparation for Senior Theses)
ENG 343: British Literary History
ENG 251: World Literature I
ENG 212: Research
ENG 113: Introduction to Literature
ENG 102: Reading and Writing II
ENG 101: Reading and Writing I
Department of English, Hamline University
Instructor, Shakespeare
Department of International Studies, Macalester College
Instructor, Global Shakespeares
Instructor, The Anglo-Planetary World, 1450-1800

Winter 2015
Fall 2015
Winter 2015
Fall 2014
Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Winter 2015
Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Spring 2014
Spring 2012, Spring 2013
Fall 2012

Department of English, University of Minnesota

Instructor, Online Course: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I
Fall 2011
Instructor, Online Course: Shakespeare
Fall 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011
Grader, Shakespeare
Spring 2009, Spring 2011

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Primary instructor: Prof. John Watkins
Instructor, Historical Surveys of British Literatures I
Instructor, Shakespeare
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Shakespeare
Primary Instructor: Prof. Tom Clayton
Teaching Assistant, Modern Fiction
Primary Instructor: Prof. Joel Weinsheimer

Spring 2010, Spring 2012

Summer 2009
Fall 2008
Fall 2006, Spring 2007

Department of Writing Studies, First-Year Writing Program, University of Minnesota

Instructor, University Writing
Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2011
Instructor, Writing and Academic Inquiry
Fall 2010
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Prophetic Mourning. Workshop co-organizer. Attending to Early Modern Women. Milwaukee,
WI, June 2015.
"To Preserve the Past: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Politics of Cookery." Womens
History Month Presentation. Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI, March 2015.
Domesticated Violence, or How to Preserve the Past in The Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth,
Commonly Called Joan Cromwell. Roundtable Early Modern Women and Food.
MLA Convention. Chicago, IL, January 2014.
This unnatural War came like a Whirlwind: Remembering and Rebuilding in Margaret
Cavendishs Prose. 10th Annual Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Graduate
Roundtable, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 2013.
Seeing through Sacred Spectacles: Meditation and Memory in Lucy Hutchinsons Order and
Disorder. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium: Early Modern Women,
New Perspectives. University of Miami, Miami, FL, February 2013.
Dont MournMemorialize: Defining Widows Work in Memoirs of the Life of Colonel
Hutchinson. Seminar Early Modern Women and the Discourse of Death. Shakespeare
Association of America Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, April 2011.
Remembering the Fear of Tangier in Lucy Hutchinsons Memoirs of the Life of Colonel
Hutchinson. Exploring the Renaissance, South-Central Renaissance Conference. St
Louis University, St. Louis, MO, March 2011.
A Pattern to All Maids Hereafter: Domestic Heroism in The Fair Maid of the West, Part I.
Medieval and Early Modern Research Group Annual Graduate Student Colloquium.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 2010.
Some Never-Heard-Of Torturing Pain: The Spectacle of Violence in Titus Andronicus.
(dis)junctions: Theory Re-loaded. University of California, Riverside, CA, February
2005

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HONORS AND AWARDS
Department of English Travel Grant, University of Minnesota, 2011-2013
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Travel Grant, University of Minnesota, 2009-2011
PROFESSIONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
University and Departmental Committees, Siena Heights University (Fall 2014-present)
Social Responsibility Committee (2014-15)
Womens History Month Planning Committee (2014-15)
Administrative Assistant, Center for Medieval Studies and Center for Early Modern History,
University of Minnesota, Summer 2012-present
Multi-faceted work in support of the Medieval Studies undergraduate and graduate
minor and the Early Modern Studies graduate minor. Assisting students with program
forms and requirements, maintaining graduate handbook, gathering information from
faculty on future courses and arranging cross-lists, constructing and maintaining each
semester a Moodle course website for the Workshop in Early Modern Studies.
Coordinating events (conferences, local and visiting speakers) and producing
promotional materials.
Budgetary work, including preparation of accounting documentation for center expenses
and reimbursement.
Production of weekly email newsletters for each center and printed semester-in-review
newsletters for the Center for Early Modern History.
Maintaining websites for each center.
Conference Co-Organizer and Session Chair. Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference. Chicago, Illinois, January 2010
FUSE Graduate Student Mentorship Program, 2011
Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, University of Minnesota
Communications Officer, 2010-11
President, 2008-9
Secretary, 2007-8
Editorial Assistant, Proof-reading drafts for John Watkins and Curtis Perrys Shakespeare and
the Middle Ages. Supervisor: John Watkins, Summer 2008
LANGUAGES
Reading knowledge of Latin, Old and Middle English, and Italian.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association

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Shakespeare Association of America
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
South-Central Renaissance Conference