Center for Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Shaula Schneik Edwards (she/they)

sedwards2@bates.edu

About

Hola, everyone. I’m a proud first-gen college graduate from Laredo, Texas, who left the sun-kissed shores of the San Marcos River for Maine in 2021. I have been working in higher education over a decade, with experience across a variety of institutional contexts, and love the energy and vibrancy of college campuses. Presently, I am the Grant Manager for the RIOS Institute here at Bates. RIOS is a virtual, collaborative national network of educators working to make science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education actively anti-racist, equitable, and accessible.

I hold a BA in English and Philosophy from Texas State University, an M.A. in Literature from Texas State University, and am also a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University, with a focus on public health and medical and scientific rhetoric. My research investigates affect and representations of bodies across various institutional contexts, as well as the conditions through which bodies become knowable, whether that be in public health campaigns or the way abject are portrayed in horror films. The broader questions underlying my work are those of epistemic justice and injustice, how knowledges and counter-knowledges circulate, and what we can do to improve the flow of knowledge within systems of power.

I bring experience in grant development and management, post-award administration (budgets, compliance, and reporting), and a knack for translating between the language of funders and those doing the work. I’d love to connect about grant seeking and proposal development; equity in education; science and health communication; rhetoric, writing, and anyone thinking critically about horror films, video games, or portrayals of contagion in pop culture.

Outside of work, I’m a lifelong fan of horror in all mediums, the part-robot half of a parent superduo to an amazing toddler, a friend to all spiders, and a big-time music lover.

A Selection of Relevant Prior Work

• Conference Presentation [forthcoming]: Edwards, S. S. “Say his name: the moral work of Black horror.” October 2026. Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Austin, TX.
• Publication [submitted]: Edwards, S. S., Thompson, B., Pastor Almiron, A., Pabón, J., & Diaz Eaton, C. This other river: A collaborative testimonio of mythos, world-building, and futurity in VECINA’s feminist praxis. 2026. Science Education Special Issue: From Manifesto to Collective Praxis: Towards Critical-Feminist and Justice-Centered Epistemic Futures in Science Education.
• Book Review: [forthcoming]: Edwards, S. S. “Review: A mask of flies, by M. Lyons. Journal of Southwestern American Literature.
• Workshop developed: Dyer, E., Huber, D., Edwards, S. “An Academic Plan – Why You Need One, How to Make One.” 2023. Bates College. After this workshop, students will have a realistic understanding of the degree of agency and responsibility they have for their time as college students. They will have tools to track their commitments and an understanding of the need to assess the costs and benefits of taking on a particular commitment.
• Book Review: “Road kill: Texas horror by Texas writers IV, edited by B. McCormick & E. R. Bills”. 2020. Texas Books in Review.