Contact Information

Office: 4115 JFSB

Phone: 422-3635

E-mail: suzanne_lundquist@byu.edu

Suzanne Lundquist specializes in Native American literature, comparative mythology, Third World literature, and applied humanities (service learning).

Her emphasis during her doctoral studies was the development of literacy. By literacy she means not merely the acquisition of skills, the learning of formulas for decoding and composing texts. She means also a way of connecting with one's history, society, and culture through language. In this sense, literacy becomes an ethnographic concern--it involves the mythos, logos, and ethos of a culture and concerns how individuals relate to their own and others' cultures. Her approach to literature, therefore, is a cultural studies approach.

Since the publication of her first book, Trickster: A Transformation Archetype, Dr. Lundquist has published articles with the Modem Language Association, the National Council for the Teachers of English, the American Literature Association, and in other literary journals. Her text College Composition: A Course in Ethnographic Thinking was used for seven years at BYU.

She is currently working on Witnesses for the Earth, an interdisciplinary look at attitudes towards the earth. Her article in this text, "Chastity and the Environment" has been presented at several conferences.

Dr. Lundquist received an Alcuin Award for outstanding teaching and a Multicultural Education award for her work with Native Americans. She has spent part of several summers working with other faculty and students among Native American tribes in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia.

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