Yale University
English, Ph.D., 1991
Director of Graduate Studies,
Associate Professor
420B Hall of Languages
315-443-4873
sledmund@syr.edu
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Susan Edmunds
Susan Edmunds completed her B.A. and Ph.D. work in English at Yale University . She specializes in the fields of U.S. modernism and twentieth-century U.S. fiction. Her first book, Out of Line: History, Psychoanalysis, and Montage in H.D's Long Poems (Stanford,1994) , traces the influence of psychoanalytic and film theory on the development of a montage aesthetic in H.D.'s war poetry. Her second book, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State ( Oxford , 2008) examines modernist writers' critical response to the rise of a uniquely “family-centered” U.S. welfare state. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the European avant-garde and on modern American fiction, postwar U.S. fiction, and experimental fiction.
Areas of Supervision : I have supervised M.A. and Ph.D. theses on U.S. , British, and global modernism, as well as on broad range of topics in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture. These topics have included: literature of the Counterculture; critical race studies; experimental literature, film and performance art; literature and spatial theory; proletarian literature; South Asian diasporic fiction; and literature and the welfare state.
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