PhD Candidate Summer 2024
Sally Ann Schutz-Shelton
I am an English Education Specialist with TRIO Student Support Services at NDSU. My responsibilities include personally advising 100 undergraduate students while serving as the TRIO program’s Social Media Director and English tutor. During my graduate study as an advanced PhD candidate with Texas A&M, I have focused on southern studies, border studies, and Black American literature.
I have presented papers at numerous conferences, both domestically and internationally. My work has been published in Revue LISA/LISA E-journal as well as Ballads of the North: Medieval to Modern.
As an instructor for more than six years, I have taught hundreds of students in courses that include Technical Business Writing, Composition and Rhetoric, Writing about Literature, and Texas Literature.
After WWII, the popular imagination portrayed Texas as a Western rather than a Southern state. My dissertation addresses the erasure and recovery of marginalized voices in literature of the border South(s).
2023 Staff Member of the Year
She has helped me so much as this is my first year. When we have meetings she always makes sure everything's going well and she offered to help me with English last semester. When she explained things it made things a lot easier to understand and I did very well in that class!!
NDSU TRIO Student
Award Nomination Comment
Sally has been my biggest supporter throughout my freshman year at college. She helped me figure out classes and pointed me in the right direction
NDSU TRIO Student
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Sally has helped me with searching for scholarships, she has helped with looking for off-campus job opportunities that have helped with building my resume for my internship.
NDSU TRIO Student
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She is very responsible and kind. Even when I don't contact her, she thinks about my problems and helps me to solve my financial and academic problems. She helps me in any way she can and always asks about my academic status and how she can help me.
NDSU TRIO Student
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Tutor, Writing Consultant, and Researcher
Level 3 Master Tutor
As a CRLA-certified Writing Consultant, I advised graduate students and undergrads at the TAMU Writing Center. I provided assistance with articles, essays, and dissertations, as well as nonacademic work. I have also developed and presented a training seminar for other writing consultants.
Digital Research and Curriculum Development
As a Research Assistant, I edited datasets for a digital humanities archive. I also devised training modules for writing and interactive multimedia lessons as part of a Digital Curriculum Development Team. I have also pursued additional training in Digital Humanities and Programming.
Student Evaluations
I loved this class! It's one of the best classes I've taken at TAMU. Dr. Schutz was incredible, and I always looked forward to going to this class every meeting time. I thought the discussion were very relevant and intriguing, and I would gladly take another one of her courses again. It was clear that she truly cares about her students and is enthusiastic about the subject, and I walked away a better writer and reader than I was when I came into the class.
Southern Lit
Student Evaluation
Mrs. Schutz was thoroughly engaged with the material every class period, which in turn made the material more interesting for us as students. I decided to take her course even though I had no previous knowledge of southern studies because I've enjoyed her classes before. This is because she is able to present and teach us the material in a manner where we learn the material, but still allow us to interpret it in our own manner. Overall, I'll take Mrs. Schutz for any other class, as I always enjoy her classes.
Southern Lit
Student Evaluation
Ms. Shutz always seemed enthusiastic about the books that we were assigned. She was always cheerful and showed complex knowledge over the material. She always had the answer to your questions.
Writing About Literature
Student Evaluation
Professor Schutz was a great professor. I did not think I would like this class, but she picked good books and made the material really interesting.
Texas Lit
Student Evaluation
About Sally
As a native Texan, I am interested in regional history and the border spaces where stories are reshaped by the evolving perception of self and other. Earlier in my graduate study, I focused on ballads and folklore, particularly how early twentieth century folk collectors framed the experiences of their subjects. Exploring the borderlands of folklore, I also examined how digital performances of fanfiction represent an accelerated and globalized process that emulates the traditional trajectory of folk production.