Primary Office: Callaway N213
Office Hours: by appointment
Office Phone: 404-727-6407

At Emory Since: 2013

Email: mandy.sue.suhr-sytsma@emory.edu 

Degrees:
B.A., Calvin College
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Titles:

Lecturer in English

Director of the Emory Writing Center

Mandy Suhr-Sytsma's research and teaching interests include Indigenous literature, Indigenous studies, multiethnic literature, children's/young adult literature, childhood studies, rhetoric, and writing. She specializes in Native American/Canadian Aboriginal literature with a particular interest in representations of sovereignty, childhood/adolescence, and cross-cultural dialogue. Her forthcoming book, The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature, explores how a body of Indigenous YA fiction, beginning with Jeannette Armstrong's 1985 Slash and continuing through Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel's 2015 Wabanaki Blues, remaps critical conversations in and beyond Indigenous Studies while expanding the possibilities of the YA genre. She is also researching a second book project analyzing strategic representations of childhood in Indigenous literature and activism. In addition to her literary and cultural studies interests, as the Director of the Emory Writing Center, Suhr-Sytsma maintains an active research agenda in rhetoric/composition studies, with a special focus on linguistic power dynamics at play in writing classrooms and writing centers. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Wicazo Sa Review, Children's Literature, and The Writing Center Journal.