A Jack London scholar who has visited the original site of the author's cabin in the Yukon is spending her sabbatical at Sonoma State University.
Dr. Susan Nuernberg of the University of Wisconsin, is currently scholar-in-residence for the recent donation of pristine Jack London materials made to the Special Collections of the University Library, Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center.
As a visiting Jack London scholar on campus for the next year, she is teaching a course on Jack London for the English Department during the spring semester. She also will participate in a new summer lecture series on London being offered through the School of Extended Education.
Dr. Nuernberg plans to prepare a guide to the collection and research the correspondence for any previously unpublished letters it contains. Dr. Nuernberg, who is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, earned her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in English Language and Literature.
She was named "Jack London Woman of the Year" in 1995 by the Jack London Foundation. She edited "The Letters of Russ Kingman" published by David Reji of Glen Ellen for the Jack London Research Center, and "The Critical Response to Jack London" (1995) published by Greenwood Press.
In addition to studying Jack London, Nuernberg also does research on the works of Lewis Hine and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
