Contact Info
Dr. Katherine Gantz
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
240-895-4389
klgantz@smcm.edu
Bio
Katherine Gantz is Vice President for Academic Affairs 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 Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty leads the Office of Academic Affairs. The Vice President for Academic Affairs 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
Natalia Barreto
Office Administrator for the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
240-895-4922
nibarreto@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
Dr. Antonio Ugues Jr.
Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy
augues@smcm.edu
Amanda Taylor
Interim Director of the Writing Center
apheatwole@smcm.edu
