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Suzanne Scott
Suzanne Scott teaches in the NCC First-Year Experience, "The Social World," and in a range of interdisciplinary upper-level learning communities. Her interests are in feminist and cultural theory, and she seeks to find connections among art and literature and the social, cultural and political currents of the time. She is a performance, installation, and mixed media artist whose work focuses on representations of the marginalized and disenfranchised people in our culture. In NCC, she is currently the chair of the Diversity Committee, which in Fall 2005 became one of only two standing committees in NCC. she has developed several new NCC learning communities that deal with issues of social justice, race, class, and gender. She holds an M.A. in English literature, with a concentration in feminist literary and cultural theory, and an M.F.A in interdisciplinary art, with a focus on writing and art as cultural critique.
COURSES AND LEARNING COMMUNITIES TAUGHT
- NCLC 130 - The Social World
- NCLC 275 - Visual Culture and Society
- NCLC 275 - Breaking Gender Barriers
- NCLC 375 - Art as Social Commentary
- NCLC 375 - Teaching Media Literacy
- NCLC 375 - Teaching Youth Leadership
- NCLC 375 - Art, Beauty & Culture
- NCLC 375 - Art as Social Action
- NCLC 475 - Women's History Project
- NCLC 475 - Gender Representation in Popular Culture
- NCLC 491 - Senior Capstone Experience
- ENGL 201 - Reading and Writing about Literature
- AVT 307 - Aesthetics
- AVT 375 - Writing for Artists
DEGREES
- MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Goddard College
Concentration: Visual Art and Writing as Cultural Critique
- MA in English Literature, James Madison University
Concentration: Feminist Literary Theory
- BA in English, Eastern MennoJuly 30, 2007 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS
- American Association of University Women
- Arlington Arts Center
- Arts & Space, (Former President)
- College Art Association
- Woman Made Gallery, Chicago (Board of Advisors)
- Women's Caucus for Art
MOST ACTIVE PROJECTS
- Creating mixed media and installation/performance art exhibitions dealing with race, class and gender issues.
- Serving on advisory board for Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and writing quarterly column on controversial art topics that affect women.
- Chairing NCC's Diversity Committee, and working to keep the conversation about diversity and multicultural competence in the minds of students, staff, and faculty.
- Working with NCC students and Women's Studies minors to create "Continuing History," a history of the Mason Women's Research and Resource Center.
- Presentations at conferences that focus on democratic dialogue, creating multicultural competence, cultural critique, and art as social action.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO GMU
- Co-founder and president for 16 years of communications consulting firm serving clients in health care, behavioral sciences, biotechnology, information systems and telecommunications
- Co-founder and co-managing editor of Woman's Monthly, a regional publication, from 1990-1995.
- Co-author, Migraine: The Complete Guide (Dell 1994)
- Book reviewer for Publisher's Weekly and Belles Lettre.
- Consultant to American Psychological Association's Presidential Commission on Youth Violence (1992-1994) and their Presidential Task Force on Violence in the Family (1995-1996).
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Suzanne Scott
Associate Professor
New Century College
Phone: 703-993-1819
Email: sscott3@gmu.edu
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