True to the nature of the liberal arts, Eve Stoddard has “several different but connected areas of research.” The Dana professor of global studies explains that “These can loosely be grouped together as cultural studies and include comparative race and ethnicity, heritage tourism, and postcolonial literature and theory.”  Equally fitting in a liberal arts setting, her interests have evolved: She began her career in Romantic poetry, but lately has been working on a series of projects “theorizing intersections between British colonialism in Ireland and the West Indies, centered around the racialization of the plantation house. I look at this in literary texts, in history, and in contemporary renovations of these spaces for tourism.”

Stoddard also travels the nation giving workshops on diversity and globalizing initiatives in higher education. She is on the board of the Global Studies Association of North America and the editorial board of the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ Diversity and Democracy.

In the classroom, her greatest joy is “students who tell me their vision of the world has been changed by their work with me, or that I have helped to support them through a crisis. What I live for as a teacher is to enable a student to see suddenly a completely different vision of the world.”

Again in keeping with the liberal arts environment, Stoddard says she has appreciated being “able to keep growing and changing.” She lists a series of involvements on campus: the beginnings of gender studies and the First-Year Program; project director for a “cultural encounters” grant; director of the international and intercultural programs; chair of global studies; cross-disciplinary faculty and curriculum development projects that included travel to three continents. “These experiences have enabled me to bring concrete case studies into the classroom,” she notes.
Outside the world of academe, Stoddard enjoys hiking in the Adirondacks and traveling to Ireland, to which she has taken students.