Jane E. Schultz: Faculty & Staff Directory: About: School of Liberal Arts: Indiana University

Jane E. Schultz

Professor of English and Director of Literature
Affiliated faculty in History, American Studies, Women's Studies, Medical Humanities
Fellow and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, U.K. (1999-2000)
Visiting Scholar, Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia (2006-07)
Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut (2014)

Phone:: 317-274-0082
Email:: jschult@iupui.edu

Departments/programs:: English; Literature; Medical Humanities and Health Studies; Women’s Studies

Campus:: IUPUI

Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 501R
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Education

PhD University of Michigan 1988
MA University of Michigan 1978
BA Stanford University 1976

Biography

Editor, Nursing History and Humanities book series, Manchester University (UK) Historical Consultant, "Mercy Street" [PBS miniseries]

Academic interests

nineteenth-century American literature and culture, literature and medicine, especially illness narrative; American domestic fiction, historical narrative and life writing, the social history of Civil War relief work, history of nursing, and gender studies

Teaching

American Lit, 1800-1860; American Lit, 1870-1920; Civil War Literature and Culture; Illness Narrative; 19th-C. American Domestic Fiction; Mark Twain; the Literature of Slavery; Jane Austen and Edith Wharton; Henry James; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1990-91);
Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship (1993-94);
Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards (1997, 1999);
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on Literature, Medicine, and Culture (2002);
Lincoln Prize finalist for WOMEN AT THE FRONT, 2005; Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Felllowship for "Cancer Stories," 2008-09; IU New Frontiers Fellowship for LEAD, BLOOD, AND INK: A HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE, 2010-11

Publications

See attached CV for most up-to-date list. This Birth Place of Souls: The Diary of Harriet Eaton, Civil War Nurse(Oxford UP, 2010); Cancer Stories: The Impact of Narrative on a Modern Malady Special Issue of LITERATURE AND MEDICINE 28.2 (Fall 2009);
Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America (University of North Carolina Press 2004);
"Corpus Interruptus: Biotech Drugs, Insurance Providers, and the Treatment of Breast Cancer." Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (July 2007)
"A Calculus of Advocacy: A Patient, Positionality, and Chronic Illness." Illness in the Academy ed. Kimberly Myers, Purdue, 2006;
"Performing Genres: Sara Edmonds Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text." Dressing Up for War ed. Andrew Monnickendam and Aranzazu Usandizaga. Rodopi, 2001;
"Mute Fury: Southern Women's Diaries of Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864-65." Arms and the Woman: War Gender and Literary Representation ;ed. Helen Cooper, Adrienne Munich, and Susan Squier. Univ. of North Carolina, 1989;
Other Articles in Signs, Journal of Women's History, Civil War History, Prospects: A Journal of American Cultural Studies, Legacy, Minerva Quarterly, The Companion to Southern Literature, Journal of Civil War Medicine, Encyclopedia of the Civil War, ABC-Clio, 2000.