Amy Shuman
Professor of English
566 Denney Hall
164 West Annie & John Glenn Avenue
Columbus, OH
43210
Areas of Expertise
- Narrative and Medicine
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Folklore
Education
- BA, 1975, University of California, Santa Cruz
- PhD, 1981, University of Pennsylvania
Video: OSU Distinguished Professor Amy Shuman on Narrative Theory and Human Rights
Folklore, critical theory. Author of articles on conversational narrative, literacy, political, food customs, feminist theory and critical theory and of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents; Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy; and (with Carol Bohmer) Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century. Guggenheim Fellow and Recent fellow at the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Recipient of the College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award, 2007.