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Susan L. Mizruchi
mizruchi@bu.eduSusan Mizruchi at people.bu.edu
Professor. B.A., Washington University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton
Teaching and Research Interests: 19th-21st-century American literature; religion and culture; literary and social theory; literary history; history of the social sciences.
Selected Publications: “Risk Theory and the Contemporary American Novel,” American Literary History (2009); The Rise of Multicultural America (North Carolina UP, 2008); “Gibson’s Passion in Ethical Perspective,” Journal of Renmin University of China (2007) Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860-1920 (Cambridge UP 2005); editor, Religion and Cultural Studies (Princeton UP, 2001); The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (Princeton UP, 1998); The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser (Princeton UP, 1988); “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 Boundary2 (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; Book Project on Sexuality and Celebrity in American Cinema; A Novel in Four Acts.
Honors, Grants, and Awards: Boston University Humanities Foundation Senior Fellowship (2008-2009); 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).