Susan L. Carlson, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement and Diversity
Professor
Department of English
Office: 515.294.9556
Email: susanc@iastate.edu

Education
Ph.D., English, University of Oregon
M.A., English, University of Oregon
B.A., English, University of Iowa

Role in the ADVANCE Program
Dr. Susan Carlson, PI on the ADVANCE grant, keeps the program visible in central administration, particularly with the President, the Executive Vice President and Provost (EVPP), and the Deans and academic vice presidents. She makes it a priority to work with the Internal Advisory Board (the EVPP and the five STEM deans) to ensure continuing support for the program.

She continues to work closely with the Executive Director on program management, including serving as co-chair of the committee that planned the national conference on flexible careers in STEM, which occurred in Ames October 10-11, 2008. She supervises the third ADVANCE Administrative fellow who focuses on work-life issues and training materials. Throughout the year, she works with the co-PIs and others to prioritize dissemination and to finalize authorship and dissemination guidelines. She continues to build partnerships with other programs on campus, most recently with the ISU AGEP efforts. Dr. Carlson is a member of the ADVANCE Steering Committee, the ADVANCE Council, and co-PI Team.

Dr. Carlson has also been invited to share ISU ADVANCE Program successes at North Dakota State University, the American Council on Education/State Network Coordinators Conference, and the Western Academic Leadership Forum. She also presented ADVANCE work at the AAC&U conference on faculty careers.

Research Interests

• Flexible Faculty Careers
• Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure
• British Suffrage Theatre
• Women and Comedy

• "Politicizing Harley Granville Barker: Suffragists and Shakespeare."New Theatre Quarterly XXII: 2 (May 2006): 122-140.
• "Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment."A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005. Ed. Mary Luckhurst. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 99-109.
• "Re-imagining the Theatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period."With Kerry Powell. Cambridge Companion to Edwardian and Victorian Theatre. Ed. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• "Comic Militancy: The Politics of Suffrage Drama."Women, Theatre, and Performance: New Historiographies. Ed. Maggie B. Gale and Viv Gardner. Manchester: U of Manchester Press, 2001.
• "Portable Politics: Creating New Space for Suffrage-ing Women."New Theatre Quarterly XVII: 4 (November 2001): 334-346.
• Women in Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1991.
• Women of Grace: James's Plays and the Comedy of Manners. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985.