Faculty/Staff Directory
Susan L Eastman, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
- School of Arts & Sciences, Department of English
Room 200A
730 College Dr. Dalton, GA 30720
Office Hours
Office hours are posted on my office door and listed on course syllabi.
seastman@daltonstate.edu
706.272.4470
Degrees
PhD University of Tennessee
MA University of Tennessee
BA Berea College
Biography
I am originally from a very small town in New Hampshire, was raised off-the-grid, and attended a two-room schoolhouse. However, I’ve been in the South for over twenty years and have happily made Chattanooga my home. Dalton State is an extension of that home.
I have a broad range of teaching interests and some of my favorites include cultural studies, graphic novels, film, multiethnic literatures and American literature. Socratic class discussions and making connections between literature and the world in which we live rest at the center of my approach to teaching and learning.
My research and service emphasize public memory, representations of trauma and war in literature, films, and memorials, in addition to giving back to military veterans. In my book, The American War in Viet Nam: Cultural Memory at the Turn of the Century (University of Tennessee Press, 2017) I analyze veteran, civilian, American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, and Philippine memorials, literary, and cinematic representations of the war produced at the turn-to-the-twenty-first-century. I am currently researching the immediacy and proliferation of Global War on Terror Memorials and serve as a voluntary scholarly consultant to the Nationa Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation.
Achievements
Publications
Book: The American War in Viet Nam: Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century. University of Tennessee Press, 2017.
Articles:
“How to Tell a [True War] Story”: Tim O’Brien, Mark Twain and Metafiction.” Midwestern Miscellany, 2019.
“The ‘Nam Comics: Remembering the American War in Viet Nam.” Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam Conflict. University of North Texas Press, 2019.
Review of Ghost of a Person Passing in Front of a Flag by D.F. Brown. Journal of Veterans Studies, 2019. https://journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/abstract/129/
“'The War Prayer' in Contemporary Film and Social Media.” The Mark Twain Annual, 2016.
“Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers: Forgetting the American War in Viet Nam.” The Martial Imagination: Essays on the Cultural History of American Warfare. Ed. Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. Texas A&M University Press, 2013. 201-218.
“Aesthetic Limbo: Memory Making at the Vietnam Women’s Memorial.” Ed. Mark Heberle. Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 342-353.
Select Accomplishments
National Endowment for the Humanities “Dialogues of War” grant. “We are Veterans Too: Women’s Experiences in the Military.” 2020-2022
USG Chancellor’s Learning Scholar. Faculty Learning Community Facilitator, Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) 2019-2021
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. “American Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations.” Virginia Tech, 2016.