Developmental Instructor
Indiana Office and Phone
203C Pratt Hall
P: 724-357-2729
E-mail
stephan.schaffrath@iup.edu
Education
2004 PhD in English (Literature and Criticism Program), dissertation title: Chaotics, Architectonics, and Truth-Finding Methodology in the Post-World War II British Novel: Approaching Approximations, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1997 MA in English, emphases on Language Studies/ESL and British Literature, Eastern Kentucky University
1995 BS in Psychology with a minor in Spanish, magna cum laude, Eastern Kentucky University
1990 Abitur, German University Preparatory Degree, Gymnasium Olching
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Schaffrath, S. (2016). Golding's The Spire as an architectonic novel. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 18(1), 1-9.
- Schaffrath, S. (2016). Obsession and metamorphosis in two first-person infantryman narratives. The Midwest Quarterly, 57(3), 288-305.
- Schaffrath, S. (2010). Comparing Brown and Eco: Knights Templar in The DaVinci Code and Foucault’s Pendulum.” The Midwest Quarterly, 52(1), 70-85. Rpt. in Trudeau, L. J. (Ed). (2014) Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 360. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 220-25.
- Schaffrath, S. (2010). Comparing Brown and Eco: Knights Templar in The Da Vinci Code and Foucault’s Pendulum. The Midwest Quarterly, 52(1), 70-85.
- Schaffrath, S. (2007). The methodology of architectonic truth-finding in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel).” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 9(4), 1-13.
- Schaffrath, S. (2002). Order-versus-chaos dichotomy in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Extrapolation, 43(1), 98-112. Rpt. in Witalec, J. (2004) Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 144. Detroit: Gale.
- Schaffrath, S. (2004) What really happened to Pangall.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 34, 10-11.
- Schaffrath, S. (2003) The many facets of chaos-versus-order dichotomy in Graham Swift’s Waterland.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 4, 84-93.
- Schaffrath, S. (2002) Order-versus-chaos dichotomy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Extrapolation, 43, 98-112.
- Schaffrath, S. (2002) Vampiric elements in Bernard Malamud’s The Assistant. The CEA Critic, 64, 63-71.
Recent Presentations
- April 2015: “Adjuncting 2.0.” PADE Annual Conference, Hershey, PA.
- April 2014: “Walking Tall at IUP.” PADE Annual Conference, Gettysburg, PA.
- April 2012: “Dave Grossman and the Depiction of the Psychological Effects of Killing in the Television Show Supernatural.” PCEA Conference, Scranton, PA.
- March 2011: “First Person Infantrymen Narratives and David Grossman’s Theory of Killology.” PCEA Conference, Erie, PA.
- April 2009: “Circling Tensions and Illuminating Goals: How a Teaching Circling can Illuminate the Broad Ways to Teach Writing.” SUNY Council on Writing Conference, Buffalo, NY.
Awards:
2010 Victor J. Emmett Memorial Award: selected as the winner for the best essay on a literary topic published in the Midwest Quarterly in 2010, “Comparing Brown and Eco: Knights Templar in The Da Vinci Code and Foucault’s Pendulum.”