Professor, Humanities

Email

Preferred: susan.scaff@sjsu.edu

Alternate: sscaff@sbcglobal.net

Telephone

Preferred: (408) 924-4507

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Univ Of Arizona, 1987
• Master of Arts, English, Univ Of Arizona, Arizona, United States, 1980
• Master of Arts, Comparative Literature, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California, United States, 1969
• Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature, Univ Of Cal-Berkeley, California, United States, 1966

Bio

Prof. Scaff has taught English, Comparative Literature, and Humanities at the Univ of Arizona, Penn State Univ, and San Jose State Univ, where she has been on the faculty since 1998. She teaches in the Humanities Honors Program and also teaches upper division courses in European Studies, including some online. Her area of specialization is European modernism, and she has published a book on German novelist Thomas Mann along with articles on Mann, James Joyce, Charlotte Bronte, and Christa Wolf.