Susan S Lanser

Title

Professor of English and American Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature

English and American Literature
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

18th- and 19th-century British and French studies. Women writers. The novel. Women's studies and lesbian/gay studies. Comparative literature.

Degrees

University of Wisconsin, Ph.D.

University of Wisconsin, M.A.

Marquette University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	lanser@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3093
Office:	Rabb, 211

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Awards and Honors

Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2004)

Graduate English Organization Faculty Service Award, University of Maryland (1999 - 2000)

Folger Institute Fellowship (1998 - 1999)

Graduate English Organization Faculty Mentor Award, University of Maryland (1997)

Citation for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland (1996)

Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland (1994)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1987)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1981)

Courses Taught

COML	115b	Fictions of Liberty: Europe in a Revolutionary Age
ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	145b	Jane Austen: Gender, Art, and History
ENG	200a	Methods of Literary Study
ENG	220b	A Novel Nation: The Making of English Fiction
ENG	221b	Narrative Theory
WMGS	5a	Women and Gender in Culture and Society
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

Lanser, Susan S. ""Plot" and "Speech Act Theory" entries." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 2010. (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S. "Sapphic Dialogics: Historical Narratology and the Sexuality of Form." Postclassical Narratology. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Jan Alber. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S. "Written on the Body: Enlightenment, Gender, Sexuality.." A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Ed. Ellen Pollak. Oxford: Berg, 2010 (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S. "Feeling Backward." Rev. of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, by Heather Love. Modern Language Quarterly

Lanser, Susan S. "Novel (Lesbian) Subjects: The Sexual History of Form." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42. (2009). (forthcoming)

Susan S. Lanser. "Tory Lesbians: Economies of Intimacy and the Status of Desire." Lesbian Dames. Ed. Caroline Gonda and John Beynon. London: Ashgate, 2009 (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S, Valérie André and Huguette Krieff. ""Tribades"." Dictionnaire des femmes des Lumières. 2010.

Lanser, Susan S. "Burning Dinners: Feminist Subversions of Domesticity." Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture (book). (1992): Reading Women's Lives (textbook). Reprint: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2008.

Lanser, Susan S. "Mapping Sapphic Modernity." Comparatively Queer: Crossing Time, Crossing Cultures. Ed. Jarrod Hayes, Margaret Higonnet, and William Spurlin. contract under negotiation, 2007

Susan S. Lanser. "'The Political Economy of Same- Sex Desire'." Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women V. Ed. Joan Hartman and Adele Seefe. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 157-175.

Susan S. Lanser. "The Art of Finding: Reading as a (Very Easy) Death." Life Writing, Writing Death: In Memory of Elaine Marks. Ed. Richard Goodkin. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. 163-179.

Lanser,Susan S, Richard Sha. Put to the Bush 'Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes.'. Romantic Praxis, 2005.

Lanser,Susan S. "Fiction and the 'Rights of Man'." Carmel Lectures. Ed. Hana Wirth-Nesher. Tel Aviv University, 2005

Lanser,Susan S. "The 'I" of the Beholder." Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Blackwell, 2005

Lanser,Susan S. "The Novel Body Politic." Eighteenty Century English Novel. Ed. Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia. Blackwell, 2005

Lanser,Susan S. "'The Yellow Wallpaper' and the Politics of Color." The Yellow Wallpaper : A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Catherine Golden. Routledge, 2004

Lanser,Susan S. "Sexing Narratology: Toward a Gendered Poetics of Narrative Voice." Narrative Theor: Critical Perspectives. Routledge, 2004

Lanser,Susan S (coedited with Neil Fraistat). Helen Maria Williams. Letters Written in France, 2001.

Lanser,Susan S et al (Folger Collective on Early Modern Women). Women Critics 1660-1820: An Anthology. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1995.

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