{"id":6416,"date":"2018-08-29T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&p=6416"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:20:31","slug":"6416","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/6416\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Mizruchi"},"content":{"rendered":"

For CV\u00a0click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan L. Mizruchi is Professor of English Literature at Boston University.\u00a0 She received B.A.\u2019s in English and in History from Washington University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1985.\u00a0 Professor Mizruchi\u2019s specialties are nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature; religion and culture; literary and social theory; literary history; and history of the social sciences.\u00a0 She has taught courses in literature, gender, and film at Boston University for twenty-nine years.\u00a0 Publications include: Brando\u2019s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work (Norton, 2014); Film Rights Sold, 2014; Paperback Published, 2015; The Rise of Multicultural America (North Carolina UP, 2008); Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860\u20131920 (Cambridge UP 2005);\u00a0 The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (Princeton UP, 1998); The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, & Dreiser (Princeton, 1988); and, as editor Religion and Cultural Studies, editor (Princeton UP, 2001) and contributor to The Norton Critical Edition of The Souls of Black Folk<\/em> (1999) and Everyman Edition of The Bostonians<\/em> (1994).\u00a0 She is the recipient of many academic honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS, and the Fulbright Commission. She is the recipient, most recently, of the Arts and Sciences Dean\u2019s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, 2015, and the Financial Times \u2018Best Books of 2014 and Booklist Editor\u2019s Choice, 2014\u2019 for Brando\u2019s Smile<\/em>.\u00a0 She serves as the U.S. Delegate for Literature, Film and Media Studies for Oxford University Press, and a consultant for PBS, the Princeton University English Department Advisory Council, and the NEH, NHA, ACLS, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h5>\n
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  • \u201cThe School of Martyrdom: Culture and Class in The Catcher in the Rye\u201d Religion and Literature<\/em> (Summer 2015\u2014published Summer 2016), pp. 23-40.<\/li>\n
  • Brando\u2019s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work<\/em> (Norton, 2014); Film Rights Sold, 2016; Paperback Published, 2015<\/li>\n
  • \u201cRisk Theory and the Contemporary American Novel,\u201d American Literary History <\/em>(2009)<\/li>\n
  • The Rise of Multicultural America<\/em> (North Carolina UP, 2008)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cGibson\u2019s Passion <\/em>in Ethical Perspective,\u201d\u00a0Journal of Renmin University of China<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n
  • Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860<\/em>\u20131920<\/em> (Cambridge UP 2005)<\/li>\n
  • Editor, Religion and Cultural Studies<\/em> (Princeton UP, 2001)<\/li>\n
  • The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory<\/em> (Princeton UP, 1998)<\/li>\n
  • The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser<\/em> (Princeton UP, 1988)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cLolita in History,\u201d American Literature<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cBecoming Multicultural,\u201d\u00a0American Literary History<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe Place of Ritual in Our Time,\u201d\u00a0American Literary History<\/em> (2000)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cNeighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois,\u201d\u00a0Centuries\u2019 Ends, Narrative Means <\/em>(1996) and\u00a0The Norton Critical Edition of <\/em>The Souls of Black Folk (1999)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cCataloging the Creatures of the Deep: Billy Budd<\/em> and the Rise of Sociology,\u201d\u00a0Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon<\/em> (1994) and\u00a0Boundary 2 <\/em>(1990)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cReproducing Women in The Awkward Age<\/em>,\u201d Representations<\/em> (1992)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe Politics of Temporality in The Bostonians<\/em>,\u201d Nineteenth-Century Literature<\/em> (1985)
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    Work in Progress<\/h5>\n
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    • \u201cVery Short Introduction to Henry James\u201d Oxford University Press<\/li>\n
    • Edited Collection, \u201cLibraries and Archives in the Digital Age\u201d<\/li>\n
    • A Novel on Risk in Contemporary Culture<\/li>\n
    • A Study of 1950s Pariahs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      Honors, Grants, and Awards<\/h5>\n
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      • Fulbright Award<\/em>, Brazil, 2015<\/li>\n
      • Arts and Sciences Dean\u2019s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education<\/em>, 2015<\/li>\n
      • Brando\u2019s Smile<\/em>: Financial Times<\/em> \u201cBest Books of 2014\u201d; Booklist Editor\u2019s Choice<\/em>, 2014<\/li>\n
      • Senior Research Fellowship, Boston University Humanities Center, 2015-2016<\/li>\n
      • Raymund Schwager Memorial Lecturer, Colloquium on Violence and Religion, 2010<\/li>\n
      • Boston University Humanities Foundation Senior Fellowship, 2008\u20132009<\/li>\n
      • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001\u20132002<\/li>\n
      • Distinguished Teaching Award, Boston University Honors Program, 2001<\/li>\n
      • Fletcher S. Jones Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1995<\/li>\n
      • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1990\u20131991<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":12176,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6416\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}