Caroline Woidat received her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1994. A co-founder of the Native American Studies minor, Woidat supports interdisciplinary and social justice studies at Geneseo in collaboration with faculty across departments. She often teaches courses examining American women writers, Native American literature, American studies, and textual recovery through archival research. She participated in the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges hybrid course sharing in Native American studies. In 2008 she received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research currently centers on sermons by Elizabeth Oakes Smith and anti-prison writings by other women authors and activists. In 2015 Woidat published an edition of Oakes Smith's (Broadview Press).
Woidat coordinates the Center for Social Justice Studies, the American Studies and Native American Studies programs, and the Carceral Studies microcredential. She has traveled with Geneseo students multiple times on a faculty-led program in Ireland that includes study at the in County Sligo.
Classes
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ENGL 114: Lit: Native Lands
The course focuses on literary studies and sustainability. Literature and other cultural productions (e.g., films, novels, poetry, nature writing) provide an opportunity for students to engage with and reflect on the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability, how these dimensions relate to each other, and how they shape our changing planet.
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ENGL 439: Lit: Women, Spirits & Ghosts
Advanced critical study of a theme, movement, or special subject in the U.S. cultural tradition. For example, Women Writers and 19th-Century Social Reform, Filming the 70s, and The Harlem Renaissance.