Susan L. Mizruchi
mizruchi@bu.edu

Professor; Education: B.A., Washington University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton

Teaching and Research Interests: 19 th- and 20 th-century American literature; religion and culture; literary and social theory; literary history; history of the social sciences

Selected Publications: The Rise of Multicultural America (2008); Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860-1920 (2005); editor, Religion and Cultural Studies (2001); The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (1998); The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (1988); "Risk and Contemporary American Culture" (forthcoming); "Gibson's 'Passion' in Ethical Perspective" (2007); "Lolita in History," American Literature (2003); "Becoming Multicultural," American Literary History (2003); "The Place of Ritual in Our Time," American Literary History (2000); "Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois," Centuries Ends, Narrative Means (1996) and The Norton Critical Edition of The Souls of Black Folk (1999); "Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: Billy Budd and the Rise of Sociology," Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon (1994) and Boundary (1990); "Reproducing Women in 'The Awkward Age,'" Representations (1992); "The Politics of Temporality in The Bostonians," Nineteenth-Century Literature (1985)

Work in Progress: Book project on Risk and Contemporary American culture

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Class of 2007 Teacher Honoree; Guggenheim Fellowship (2001-2002); Distinguished Teaching Award, Boston University Honors Program (2001); Fletcher S. Jones Fellowship, Huntington Library (1995); National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1990-1991)