Susan L. Mizruchi
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ProfessorBA, Washington University
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Teaching and Research Interests
- Nineteenth- and twenty-first-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 Boundary 2 (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)