Dr. Suzanne Stein
Biography

Suzanne Stein brings to the University of South Florida. Sarasota/Manatee campus a decade of experience writing and teaching literature and the classics to undergraduate and graduate students in New York City.  At Hunter College, City University of New York, she taught a wide variety of upper-level classes to undergraduate students majoring in the liberal arts.  At Columbia University, she created and directed an interdisciplinary seminar for graduate students writing their Master's Theses.  In the evolution of this seminar, which included students from all departments at Columbia, she learned much about mentoring and helping students with widely differing academic interests focus their scholarly projects.

In September, 2000, Dr. Stein published a book with Garland/Routledge Press about Herman Melville and fanaticism: The Pusher and the Sufferer: An Unsentimental Look at Moby-Dick.  She has published fiction in Grand Street magazine and Feminist Studies, and won First Place in the fiction category of the Open Voice Contest at the West Side Y.M.C.A. in Manhattan.  Since coming to U.S.F., she has published guest editorials in the Sarasota Herald Tribune and hosted literary events at Sarasota’s Selby Library.  She participates actively in the cultural life of the University and Sarasota.

 Dr. Stein received her Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and graduate degrees from Rutgers University.  Her current intellectual pursuits are several-fold.  She is writing about terrorism and Israel for periodical publications.  She is studying eighteenth-century political theory.  She is preparing a manuscript of a literate, intelligible physics textbook.  She is also planning an essay on four paintings of Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro, Tuscany.