Susanna Engbers

Susanna Engbers

Professor of English
English, Literature, and World Languages
Email: [email protected]

Education

• PhD, Catholic University of America, English

Publications and Intellectual Contributions

• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2025). "Becoming the Change: Depictions of Women’s Emerging Rhetorical Agency at Nineteenth-Century Quilting Bees," CEA Critic. 87 (3). pp. 247-54.
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2025). "Deplored and Deployed: Gossip in Jane Austen's Novels," Persuasions. 47 pp. 148-159. Jane Austen Society of North America.
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2023). “Gossip at the Quilting Bee: A Crucial Form of Solidarity in Nineteenth-Century America.” CEA Critic. 85 (3). pp. 203-210. College English Association, Johns Hopkins UP. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/912096
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2022). "Quilting Together: The Role of the Quilting Bee in Shaping the Woman’s Rights Movement," Blanket Statements. 155
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2018). "Employing Rhetorical Theory in Design Education Practice," Dialectic. 2 (1).
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2017). "Narrative Theory: A Bridge between Two Departmental Islands," CEA Forum. 46 (2).
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2015). "A Woman Both New and True," American Catholic Studies. 126 (2).
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2013). "Branded: The Sister Arts of Rhetoric and Design," Art, Design, and Communication in Higher Education. 12 (2).
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2012). "Translating the Verbal to the Visual,"
• Journal Article
  Engbers, S. K. (2010). "What’s My Angle Here? An Exercise in Invention," Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 38 (1).

Presentations

• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), College English Association, "Gossiping toward Revolution in Jane Austen’s Novels," Charlotte, NC, (March 28, 2026).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Gossip on the (Quilted) Borders," Baltimore, MD, (April 12, 2025).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), College English Associatoin, "Depictions of Women’s Emerging Power at Nineteenth-Century Quilting Bees," Philadelphia, PA, (March 28, 2025).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), College English Association, "Gossip at the Quilting Bee: A Crucial Form of Solidarity in Nineteenth-Century America," San Antonio, TX, (March 31, 2023).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Haskill, C. (Author & Presenter), Conference on College Composition and Communication, "’Let Me Grab My Shades’: Donning Alternative Critical Lenses as a Role-Playing Performance," Pittsburgh, PA, (March 14, 2019).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Rhetoric Society of America, "The Role of Quilts and Quilt-making in Refashioning the Meeting Spaces of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union," Minneapolis, MN, (June 1, 2018).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Quilts, Quilt-making, and the Cultivation of Voice in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union," Portland, OR, (March 16, 2017).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Feminisms and Rhetorics National Conference, “From Bed-Covering to Banner: Women’s Ways of Making Suffrage Arguments through Quilting," Tempe, AZ, (October 28, 2015).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Popular Cultural Association National Conference, "Analyze This: Using Film in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom," New Orleans, LA, (April 3, 2015).
• Oral Presentation
  Engbers, S. K. (Author & Presenter), Design Research Society, "Branded: The Sister Arts of Rhetoric and Design," Oslo, Norway, (March 16, 2013).