Professor Emeritus
Nancy Lusignan Schultz joined the faculty of Salem State University in 1983. Her scholarship interrogates the intersection of literature, history, race, and religion. Schultz's expertise is centered in the history of U.S. Catholicism, American Studies, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she has also done extensive work on the history of Salem and Swampscott, Massachusetts. She was named professor emeritus in 2020.
Schultz is the author of the award-winning Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Free Press, 2000), and Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City (Yale UP, 2011 and the reprint edition of 2015). Her most recent book, with Beth L. Lueck and Sirpa Salenius, is Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World, University of New Hampshire Press (2017). With Dane Anthony Morrison, she is the co-editor of Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, published in a second edition with updated preface (April 2015). She is also the editor of Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture (Purdue UP 1999) and Veil of Fear: Nineteenth Century Convent Tales by Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk (Purdue UP 1999).
Schultz is Chair of the Swampscott Historical Commission and writes a monthly history column for Swampscott Neighbors, a local publication. She is leading the effort to save the General John Glover farmhouse in Swampscott from demolition: https://www.savetheglover.org/.
Schultz is a Founding Officer of The Harriet Stowe Society, 1996-present. Currently, she is working on an edition of the complete poems of Harriet Beecher Stowe to be published by Oxford University Press.
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About Nancy Lusignan Schultz
Nancy Lusignan Schultz joined the faculty of Salem State University in 1983. Her scholarship interrogates the intersection of literature, history, race, and religion. Schultz's expertise is centered in the history of U.S. Catholicism, American Studies, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she has also done extensive work on the history of Salem and Swampscott, Massachusetts. She was named professor emeritus in 2020.
Schultz is the author of the award-winning Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Free Press, 2000), and Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City (Yale UP, 2011 and the reprint edition of 2015). Her most recent book, with Beth L. Lueck and Sirpa Salenius, is Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World, University of New Hampshire Press (2017). With Dane Anthony Morrison, she is the co-editor of Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory, published in a second edition with updated preface (April 2015). She is also the editor of Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture (Purdue UP 1999) and Veil of Fear: Nineteenth Century Convent Tales by Rebecca Reed and Maria Monk (Purdue UP 1999).
Schultz is Chair of the Swampscott Historical Commission and writes a monthly history column for Swampscott Neighbors, a local publication. She is leading the effort to save the General John Glover farmhouse in Swampscott from demolition: https://www.savetheglover.org/.
Schultz is a Founding Officer of The Harriet Stowe Society, 1996-present. Currently, she is working on an edition of the complete poems of Harriet Beecher Stowe to be published by Oxford University Press.
| 1983 - 2023 | Faculty Member, Salem State University ‐ English | |
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| 2018 | Visiting Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland | |
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| 2013 - 2014 | Dean's Fellow, Salem State University ‐ College of Arts and Sciences | |
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| 2007 - 2013 | English Department Chairperson, Salem State University ‐ College of Arts and Sciences | |
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| 1999 - 2007 | Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English & American Studies, Salem State University ‐ School of Graduate Studies | |
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| 1984 - 1999 | Co-Director, Salem State University ‐ Mary G. Walsh Writing Center | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 - 2018 | Strategic Planning Grant |
| Salem State University | |
| Colleague(s): Rebecca Prescott | |
| $7,500 | |
| 2017 | Mini-Grant |
| University Research Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Salem State University | |
| $1,000 | |
| 2016 | Mini-Grant |
| University Research Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Salem State University | |
| $1,000 | |
| 2014 | Research Grant |
| University Research Committee, School of Graduate Studies, Salem State University | |
| $4,000 | |
| 2003 - 2004 | Fellowship |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | |
| $40,000 | |
| 2002 - 2003 | Senior Fellow |
| Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| 1979 - 1983 | University Fellow |
| Boston College |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| Present | Treasurer and Founding Officer, The Stowe Society | 2015 - 2016 | Editor, New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Interim Report | 2014 - 2015 | Participant, "Doing Digital Humanities" Faculty Learning Community, Salem State University | 2014 - 2015 | Reviewer, New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) | 2013 - 2015 | Faculty Mentor, Center for Research and Creative Activities, Salem State University | 2013 - 2014 | Dean's Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Salem State University | 2013 - 2014 | Invited Participant, Higher Education Resources Services (HERS) Women's Higher Education Leadership, Wellesley Institute | 2014 | Fulbright Mentor, Visiting Iraqi Scholar Program, Salem State University | Member, American Studies Association | Member, Modern Language Association | Member, New England Historic Genealogical Society | Member, Phi Kappa Phi |
Honors and Awards
- Sabbatical Award, Spring 2017
- Outstanding First Year Advocate Award, Salem State University, April 2014
- Outstanding Educator Award, Friends of the School of Education, Salem State University, May 2011
- Elected to Phi Kappa Phi, Salem State University Chapter, 1999
- EXTRA! Award from Association Media & Publishing, 2020
| 1984 | PhD, Boston College ‐ English and American Literature | |
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| 1978 | BA, College of the Holy Cross ‐ English and French | |
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