Faculty Guide

Title

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

Comparative Literature
English
Romance Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

European culture and literature, 17th through 19th centuries. Narrative theory and the novel. Women writers. Women's studies and sexuality studies. French Revolution.

Awards and Honors

Co-Director, Radcliffe Institute Workshop, "Writing Lesbianism into History and Representation" (with Valerie Traub) (2013)

President-Elect (Currently Second Vice-President), International Society for the Study of Narrative (2013)

Co-Director, Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Age of Revolution (2012)

Great Teachers Honoree, Shirley Bill Fund, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012)

Innovative Course Design Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012)

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	111a	How Fiction Works: Narrative in Theory and Practice
ENG	145b	Just Jane Austen: Gender, Justice, and the Art of Fiction
ENG	200a	Methods of Literary Study
ENG	220b	A Novel Nation: The Making of English Fiction
ENG	254a	Gender and the Genealogy of the Novel: 1680-1800
ENG/HIST	118b	London from Restoration to Regency: People, Culture, City
GSAS	250c	Rethinking the Age of Revolution
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

Lanser, Susan S and Robyn W Warhol, ed. Queer/Feminist Narrative Theory. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014. (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S. The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic 1565-1830. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. (forthcoming)

Lanser, Susan S. "Sex, Gender, and the Limits of Enlightenment." A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Ed. Ellen Pollak. Oxford: Berg, 2013. 45-69; 216-220.

Lanser, Susan S. ""Plot" and "Speech Act Theory" entries." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 2012.

Lanser, Susan S. "“Of Closed Doors and Open Hatches: Heternormative Plots in Eighteenth-Century (Women's) Studies”." Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (ECTI) 53. 3 (2012): 273-290.

Lanser, Susan S.. "Gender and Narration." Living Handbook of Narratology (2012): <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Main_Page>.

Lanser, Susan S. ""The Implied Author: An Agnostic Manifesto"." Style 45. 1 (2011): 153-160.

Lanser, Susan S. "Interview Essay." Narrative Theory and Poetics: 5 Questions. Ed. Peer Bundegaard et al. New York: Academic/VIP Press, 2011. 95-101.

Lanser, Susan S. "":Are We There Yet?: The Intersectional Future of Feminist Narratology." Foreign Literature Studies 32. 4 (2010): 32-41.

Lanser, Susan S. ""Tory Lesbians: Economies of Intimacy and the Status of Desire."." Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. John Beynon and Caroline Gonda. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010. 173-189.

Lanser, Susan S. "Mapping Sapphic Modernity." Comparatively Queer: Crossing Time, Crossing Cultures. Ed. Jarrod Hayes, Margaret Higonnet, and William Spurlin. London: Palgrave, 2010. 69-89.

Lanser, Susan S. "Sapphic Dialogics: Historical Narratology and the Sexuality of Form." Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Jan Alber. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010. 186-205.

Lanser, Susan S. "Feeling Backward." Rev. of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, by Heather Love. Modern Language Quarterly vol. 70 December 2009: 542-545.

Lanser, Susan S. "Novel (Lesbian) Subjects: The Sexual History of Form." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42. 3 (2009): 497-503.

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.

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." Blackwell Companion to the 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.

Lanser,Susan S. Fictions of Auhority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. Cornell University Press, 1992.

Lanser,Susan S. The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction. Princeton University Press, 1981.