Charlotte S. Sussman
Professor of English
Office Hours
Fall 2022 Semester:
Fridays 11:30 am-12:30 pm (302 Allen) and 12:30-1:30 at the Perk
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
- Chair of the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022
Contact Information
- 325 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
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charlotte.sussman@duke.edu
(919) 684-2741
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Cornell University 1992
- M.A., Cornell University 1990
- B.A., Yale University 1987
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of Graduate Studies in English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019 - 2021
- Associate Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2019
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
- Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013
- Director, Undergraduate Studies, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2011
- Recognition
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In the News
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DEC 2, 2019 Bass Connections
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Sussman, Charlotte. Peopling the World Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
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Heydt-Stevenson, J., and C. Sussman. Preface. 2010, pp. 1–12. Scopus, doi:10.5949/UPO9781846315633.001.Full Text
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Heydt-Stevenson, J., and C. Sussman. Recognizing the romantic novel: New histories of British fiction, 1780–1830. 2010, pp. 1–357. Scopus, doi:10.5949/UPO9781846315633.Full Text
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Sussman, C. S. Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833. Stanford University Press, 2000.
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Academic Articles
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Turner, P. J., et al. “Memorializing the Middle Passage on the Atlantic seabed in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.” Marine Policy, vol. 122, Dec. 2020. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104254.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Sussman, C. “Where will dido rest?” Modern Philology, vol. 118, no. 2, Nov. 2020, pp. 213–33. Scopus, doi:10.1086/711143.Full Text
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Sussman, C. “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” English Language Notes, vol. 58, no. 2, Oct. 2020, pp. 187–89. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00138282-8721688.Full Text
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Sussman, C. “Epic, exile, and the global: Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary.” Nineteenth Century Literature, vol. 65, no. 4, Mar. 2011, pp. 481–512. Scopus, doi:10.1525/ncl.2011.65.4.481.Full Text
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Sussman, C. “Time wandering: Problems of witnessing in the romantic-era novel.” Novel, vol. 43, no. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 140–47. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00295132-2009-074.Full Text
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Sussman, C. S. “Review of Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital.” Social History, vol. 33, Feb. 2008, pp. 80–82.
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Sussman, C. S. “Life and Letters in the City.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 47, June 2007.
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Sussman, C. S. A Cultural History of English Literature, 1660-1789. Polity Press, 2007.
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Sussman, C. “The colonial afterlife of political arithmetic: Swift, demography, and mobile populations.” Cultural Critique, vol. 56, Jan. 2004, pp. 96–126. Scopus, doi:10.1353/cul.2003.0065.Full Text
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Sussman, C. “"Islanded in the world": Cultural memory and human mobility in The Last Man.” Pmla, vol. 118, no. PART 2, Jan. 2003. Scopus, doi:10.1632/003081203x67677.Full Text
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Sussman, C. S. “The Empty Spaces of The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration and Depopulation.” Eighteenth Century Fiction, vol. 15.1, Oct. 2002, pp. 105–26.
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Sussman, C. S. “The Art of Oblivion: Charlotte Smith and Helen of Troy.” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, vol. 27, 1998, pp. 131–47.
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Sussman, C. “Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792.” Representations, vol. 48, Jan. 1994, pp. 48–69. Scopus, doi:10.2307/2928610.Full Text
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Sussman, C. S. “Lismahago’s Captivity: Transculturaion in Humphry Clinker.” Elh, vol. 61, 1994, pp. 597–618.
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Sussman, C. S. “’I Wonder whether poor Miss Sally Godfrey be living or dead’: The Married Woman and the Rise of the Novel.” Diacritics, vol. 20.1, pp. 88–102.
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Book Sections
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Sussman, C. “Historicizing freedom of movement: Memory and exile in political context.” Revisiting Slavery and Antislavery: Towards a Critical Analysis, 2018, pp. 97–122. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90623-2_4.Full Text
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Heydt-Stevenson, J., and C. Sussman. “‘Launched upon the sea of moral and political inquiry’: The ethical experiments of the romantic novel.” Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Fiction, 1780-1830, 2010, pp. 13–48. Scopus, doi:10.5949/UPO9781846315633.002.Full Text
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Sussman, C. S. “The Empty Spaces of The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration and Depopulation.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 184, The Gale Group, 2007.
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Sussman, C. S. “Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith and Scott.” The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Companion to Literature and Culture., edited by Paula Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 191–214.
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Sussman, C. S. “Stories for the Keepsake.” The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, edited by Esther Schor, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 163–80.
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Sussman, C. S. “Reading, Praying and Politics: Women’s Private Reading and Political Action, Some Evidence 1640-1840.” Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650-1830: From Revolution to Revolution, edited by Nigel Smith and Timothy Morton, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 133–51.
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Sussman, C. S. “The Other Problem with Women: Reproduction and Slave Culture in Aphra Behn’s ’Oroonoko’.” Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory and Criticism, edited by Heidi Hunter, University of Virginia Press, 1993, pp. 212–31.
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Other Articles
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Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian. Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Literature. Liverpool University Press, Nov. 2008.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
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