Frances Susanne Woods (born 1943) is an American literary scholar and academic administrator who was the provost of Wheaton College from 1999 to 2006. She was the president-elect of the College of Wooster in 1995. Woods was previously a faculty member at Brown University for nineteen years.
Susanne Woods | |
|---|---|
| President-elect of the College of Wooster | |
| In office April 6, 1995 – June 30, 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Henry Copeland |
| Succeeded by | R. Stanton Hales |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Frances Susanne Woods 1943 (age 80–81) Hawaii, U.S. |
| Spouse | Anne Shaver |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles Columbia University |
Life
editWoods was born in 1943 in Hawaii.[1][2] She earned a degree in political science and English from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3] She earned a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1970.[4][3] Her dissertation was titled, The Poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh.[1]
Woods taught at the University of Hawaiʻi. She worked at Brown University for nineteen years.[3] While at Brown, she was an English professor, associate dean of faculty, and director of the women writers project.[4] At Franklin & Marshall College, she was the a provost, dean and vice president for academic affairs.[4][3]
On April 6, 1995, Woods was selected as the president-elect of the College of Wooster.[3] She was set to succeed Henry Copeland on July 1, 1995, to become the first female president of the institution.[3] In an April meeting to express grievances about the selection process, James Perley, a biology professor and president of the American Association of University Professors, shared a Denison University telephone directory listing Woods as the partner of Anne Shaver, an English professor.[3] An anonymous letter was later distributed suggesting Woods was a lesbian.[3] Woods withdrew from the position of president-elect on June 30, 1995.[5] She was given a severance package distributed over a twenty-four month period.[3][6]
From 1999 to 2006, Woods was provost of Wheaton College.[4] In 2012, she joined the board of governors of the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys. She served as the interim chair during recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma.[2] Woods later chaired the board for over two years.[2] She moved to Hawaii for one year before returning in 2019 to chair the board for another two years.[2] She stepped down in 2022.[2]
As of 2022, Woods lives on Sugarloaf Key with her wife, Shaver.[2]
Selected works
edit- Woods, Susanne (1984). Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden. Huntington Library. ISBN 978-0-87328-085-3.[7]
- Woods, Susanne, ed. (1993). The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-508361-3.
- Woods, Susanne (1999). Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535234-4.[8]
- Benstock, Shari; Ferriss, Suzanne; Woods, Susanne, eds. (2002). A Handbook of Literary Feminisms. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-510206-2.
- Woods, Susanne (2013). Milton and the Poetics of Freedom. Duquesne University Press. ISBN 978-0-8207-0466-1.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b Woods, Frances Susanne (1970). The Poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh (Ph.D. thesis). Columbia University. OCLC 36600881.
- ^ a b c d e f Miller, Liz (June 29, 2022). "Dr. Susanne Woods Retires from a Decade of Service to the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys". Community Foundation of the Florida Keys. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Garrison, Julia (2023-10-27). "Remembering Wooster's first female president that never was: Susanne Woods". The Wooster Voice. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ a b c d "Visiting Faculty | Department of English | University of Miami". english.as.miami.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ Woodhouse, Kellie. "No Big Deal". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
- ^ Leatherman, Courtney (August 4, 1995). "Wooster's President-to-Be Bows Out Amid Talk of Relationship". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ Reviews of Natural Emphasis:
- ^ Reviews of Lanyer:
- ^ Reviews of Milton and the Poetics of Freedom: