|
|
|
Susan Edmunds
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1991, Yale University
Office: 424 Hall of Languages, 315-443- 4873
Email:
sledmund@syr.edu
Twentieth-century American literature and culture; African American studies; modernism
and the avant-garde; experimental fiction.
Awards
Book
Articles
Reviews
Work in Progress
Links
Awards
2003: English Dept. Graduate Teaching Prize
1989-90: Whiting Fellowship
1987-88: Prize Teaching Fellowship
1987-88: University Fellowship
1986-87: Tinker Fellowship
1984-85: Sterling Prize Fellowship
1984-86: Franke Fellowship
1982-83: Tinker Prize, Phi Beta Kappa
Top of Page
Book
Out of Line: History, Psychoanalysis and Montage in H.D.'s Long Poems. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Top of Page
Articles
"'The Race Question and the Question of the Home': Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane," American Literature, 75,1 (March 2003): 141-168 "Modern Taste and the Body Beautiful in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust." Modern Fiction Studies 44, 2 (Summer 1998): 306-330. "Narratives of a Virgin's Violation: The Critique of Middle-Class Reformism in Djuna Barnes's Ryder." Novel 30, 2 (Winter 1997): 218-236. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 127, Gale Research, GaleNet.
"Through a Glass Darkly: Visions of Integrated Community in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood." Contemporary Literature 37, 4 (Winter 1996): 559-585. "'I read the writing when he seized my throat': Hysteria and Revolution in Helen in Egypt." Contemporary Literature 32, 4 (Winter 1991): 471-495. "'Stealing from muddies body': H.D. and Melanie Klein." H.D. Newsletter (December 1991): 18-30.
Top of Page
Reviews
Review of Jonathan Veitch's American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s. Modern Fiction Studies, 44, 4 (Winter 1998): 996-998.
Review of Eileen Gregory's H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines. English Literature in Transition 43, 1 (January 2000).
Top of Page
Work in Progress
Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and The U.S. Welfare State
Top of Page
Links
Course Descriptions
Top of Page
|
