Sheena Steckl
Teaching Professor, English Department
Faculty Director, Eigel Center for Community-Engaged Learning
(She, Her, Hers)
Sheena Steckl’s expertise is in modern Arabic and Hebrew literatures, and she really likes to translate short stories. Her primary research focuses on self-critical humor in the wartime literature of Israel and Palestine, and she prefers literature that focuses on the interconnectedness between people, rather than highlights differences.
Dr. Steckl is the Faculty Director for the Eigel Center for Community-Engaged Learning, where she supports other professors in implementing community service into their courses. Many of her own courses carry service-learning designations, and her students work with various organizations throughout the midwest to improve community outcomes. Her ENGL 205: Literature and the Moral Imagination "Food and Justice" course has been working on our campus farm and with other community partners to ensure people in our city have access to fresh food.
As a teaching professor at Xavier, Dr. Steckl teaches English Composition, Literature and the Moral Imagination, Studies in Fiction, History of English, and Jewish American Literature.
Expertise
modern Arabic and Hebrew literatures
First Year at Xavier
2016
Degrees
- BA Lipscomb University, MEd Xavier University, MA University of Utah, PhD University of Utah