Susan
Eisenberg
MFA
Creative Writing, MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College,
NC
Lecturer,
Creative Writing, Literature, Arguments, with special focus on
labor and women's studies
Office:
W-3-154-17
Phone
number: 617-287-7175
susan.eisenberg@umb.edu
Susan Eisenberg has been teaching undergraduate courses in CPCS
since 1987. Susan is an active, nationally-recognized artist/scholar.
Licensed as a master electrician, she is involved in shaping the
cultural expression and analytical thinking of the tradeswomen's
movement nationally and internationally. Her book, We'll Call
You If We Need You, drawn from oral histories of tradeswomen pioneers,
was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and
is currently under development by MGM as a feature film. She travels
widely as a poet and public speaker, addressing a wide range of
audiences, including the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington
DC , the International Labour Organization in Geneva , Switzerland
, and the People's Poetry Gathering in NYC. Her installation,
Not on a Silver Platter exhibited at the George Meany Center for
Labor Studies in Silver Spring , MD. Nationally, she works toward
reframing affirmative action initiatives around high wage/high
demand occupations that remain male-dominated. Susan is also an
accomplished poet and playwright.
Recent
Publications:
Susan
Eisenberg Greatest Hits 1982-2003. Johnstown, OH : Pudding House
Publications, 2003. (poetry)
We'll
Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. (nonfiction)
Pioneering:
Poems from the Construction Site. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1998. 88 pages. (poetry)
“Still
Waiting After All These Years: women in the US construction industry.”
Women in Construction. Linda Clarke et al. Brussels , Belgium
: Reed Business Information, 2004.
Full
Speed Ahead: Making the Workforce Work for Women: A Framework
for the 21st Century. Washington , D.C.: Wider Opportunities for
Women, 2003.
“Misogyny
Hurts Craft Labor.” Engineering News-Record 247.16 ( 15 October
2001 ): 55.
Evaluates
the following competencies:
•
Reading Life Histories
•
Engaging Art
•
Reflecting on Art
•
Crafting Art
•
Making Arguments
Links:
http://www.wpr.org/book/980517a.htm
http://www.ica-group.org/gettingtowork.pdf
