Division of Academic Affairs

Contact Info

Dr. Katherine Gantz
Provost and Dean of Faculty
240-895-4389
klgantz@smcm.edu

Bio

Katherine Gantz is Provost and Dean of Faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Previous to her arrival in 2005, she held an appointment at Valparaiso University. She holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan.
Reporting directly to the President of the College and sitting on the Executive Council, the Provost and Dean of Faculty leads the Office of Academic Affairs. The Provost and Dean of Faculty provides leadership in the areas of institutional vision, accreditation, curriculum, equity and inclusivity accountability, faculty recruitment, management of the academic budget and academic program, and policy administration. In her six years focusing on faculty retention, Dr. Gantz has devised a comprehensive system of new faculty mentoring and support; this approach was recently featured as the cover story of AAC&U’s publication, Liberal Education (“Staying Power: Make sure mentoring for new faculty has lasting effects.”)

Trained in modern and post-modern French literature, her work has often explored the turbulence of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as reflected in its artistic production: the scandalous gender-defying fiction of Rachilde and the literary and artistic aftershocks created by Haussmann’s reconstruction of Paris under the Second Empire. In addition, Dr. Gantz has developed a secondary specialization in interdisciplinary approaches to gender theory and American media studies (e.g. an early application of queer theory to Seinfeld; a study of an emerging gendered lexicology in the social media platform, Pinterest; and an exploration of color as a gendered signifier in the series, Mad Men). Her work has appeared in such peer-reviewed publications as the Journal of Modern Literature, Dix-Neuf, the South Central Review, the French Review, Studies in Popular Culture, and the Journal of Feminist Scholarship

Divisional Leadership Team

Dr. Katy Arnett
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
240-895-4922
kearnett@smcm.edu

Rose Phillips
Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
240-895-4389
rlphillips@smcm.edu

Dr. Randy Larsen
Associate Dean (Riverside Division)
rklarsen@smcm.edu

Lucy Myers
Academic Fiscal Administrator (Riverside Division)
240-895-2036
lhmyers@smcm.edu

Dr. Kelly Neiles
Associate Dean (Central Division)
kyneiles@smcm.edu

Lea Waldridge
Academic Fiscal Administrator (Central Division)
240-895-3326
lgwaldridge@smcm.edu

Dr. Sahar Shafqat
Associate Dean (North Division)
sshafqat@smcm.edu

Anna McGee
Academic Fiscal Administrator (North Division)
240-895-3332
almcgee@smcm.edu

Dr. Samantha Elliott
Director of the Center for Inclusive Teaching & Learning
slelliott@smcm.edu

Aurora Margarita-Goldkamp
Director of International Education
amargaritagoldkamp@smcm.edu

Amanda VerMeulen
Director of the Library and Archives
aavermeulen@smcm.edu

Nickolas Tulley
Registrar
nbtulley@smcm.edu

Amanda Taylor
Interim Director of the Writing Center
apheatwole@smcm.edu

Joanne Goldwater
Associate Dean for Retention and Student Services
jagoldwater@smcm.edu