Minnesota Board of Teaching                                                                                                                         3-99

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FACULTY VITA FORM

Name of Faculty Member:

            Elizabeth R. Baer

Name of Institution:

Gustavus Adolphus College                  

Title or Rank: Professor                                Field: English

Earned Degrees: List date earned, institution, and major and minor/supporting field for each degree earned.

            1981 Ph.D. Indiana University, American Studies

            1970 M.A. New York University, English,

            1968 B.A. Manhattanville College. English,

Professional Experience: (including preK-12 teaching or administration and college/university experience):List name, location, dates, and field or function for each professional experience.

            2000- Gustavus Adolphus College, Professor of English & Raymond & Florence Sponberg Chair of Ethics

            Fall 2000; Spring 2003; Spring 2005 University of MN, Visiting Professor

            Fall 2004 Richard Stockton College of New Jersy, Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar

            1992-2000 Gustavus Adolphus College, Dean of the Faculty & Vice President for Academic Affairs

            1985-1992 Washington College, Provost & Dean of the College

            1984-1985 Sweet Briar College, Associate Dean of Student Academic Affairs

            1981-1984 Sweet Briar College, Assistant Dean of the College

            1978-1981 Dartmouth College, Director of the Reading and Study Skills Center

Assignment:  Fill in percentages for all that apply.

100% Full-Time in Institution                            _____% Part-Time in Institution

_____% Assignment in Education                               _____% Assignment Outside Education

100% Undergraduate Assignment                               _____% Graduate Assignment

_____% Administration                                               _____% Other specify)_________________

Load: (including teaching and administrative assignments):    For Academic Year: 2004-5

List course numbers, titles, and credits for each semester.  Specify whether courses are undergraduate or graduate level.

Fall Semester:

            On Leave

Spring Semester:

            WOM236: Women & The Holocaust

            ENG399: Senior Seminar

Interim and/or Summer Sessions:

NCATE Vita

Name: Elizabeth R. Baer

Title: Professor of English

Appointment Date: 1992

1.              Non-class duties – committees, responsibilities, etc.

Raymond & Florence Sponberg Chair of Ethics, I chair the Working Group on Social Justice and have created and organized an ongoing faculty development program entitled Service-Learning for Social Justice, which is a yearlong program of integrated readings, workshops, and international field experiences; in 2002, faculty and staff at Gustavus traveled to Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland to study "the Troubles;" in 2003 to Guatemala; in 2004 to Cuba.

2.              Current Professional and Academic Associate Memberships:

Horizon 100, organization of Twin Cities Women of Accomplishment

Modern Language Association

National Association for Women Deans

3.              Current Professional Activities

Manuscript Reviewer, for Wayne State University Press, 2002, 2003, 2004;  for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature” in 2004; for "Mosaic," and "Signs," 2000, "PMLA," 1998

4.              Sample Publications

Books:Haunted Memories: Portraits of Women during the Holocaust.  This volume of autobiographical stories is written by survivor Lucille Eichengreen, author of two highly acclaimed memoirs.  I have worked with her to prepare the volume for publication, serving as editor.  I have also written a lengthy scholarly introduction to the volume. Published in a German translation from Donat Verlag, Bremen, 2004.

Experience and Expression:  Women and the Holocaust.  Co-edited with Dr. Myrna Goldenberg. An anthology of essays on gender and the Holocaust.  Wayne State University Press, 2003.

The Blessed Abyss:  Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women.  Co-edited with Hester Baer.  A critical edition of a memoir originally published in Germany in 1946.  Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Shadows on My Heart:  The Civil War Diary of Lucy Buck of Virginia, 1861-1865, University of Georgia Press, 1997.  Nominated for The Founders Award of the Museum of the Confederacy, Lincoln Prize, Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Association of Women Historians Spruill Prize, and Southern Association of Women Historians Rose Award.

5.              Sample Papers Presented

Presenter: “Gender and Generations: Rereading Women’s Holocaust Memoirs,” at the Lessons and Legacies Conference, Providence, November 2004.

Presenter: “A Postmodern Fairy Tale of the Holocaust: Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose” at the American Literature Association Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Conference, Florida, October, 2004.

Moderator and Presenter, "Freedom Ride: Layers of Diversity and Experience on a Travelling Civil Rights Course" at the National Society of Experiential Education, Minneapolis, October, 2003.

Presenter, "One Survivor Remembers Sexual Abuse: Lucille Eichengreen's Gendered Analysis" at the American Literature Association Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Conference, Florida, October, 2003.

6.              Current Research Emphases