Scholars@Duke

• 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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  Duke Appointment History

  • 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

  • NOV 10, 2020

    Group Urges Atlantic Seafloor be Labeled a Memorial to Slave Trading

  • APR 17, 2020

    Trinity College Honors 11 for Teaching, Leadership, Diversity

  • DEC 2, 2019

    Bass Connections

    How Do We Remember and Memorialize the Middle Passage?
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellow. National Humanities Center. 2003
  • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows. American Council of Learned Societies. 2001
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United Kingdom (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Heydt-Stevenson, J., and C. Sussman. Preface. 2010, pp. 1–12. Scopus, doi:10.5949/UPO9781846315633.001.
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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.
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    • Sussman, C. S. Imagining the British Population: British Literature in an Age of Mass Migration 1660-1838. 2005.
    • Sussman, C. S. Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833. Stanford University Press, 2000.

  • Academic Articles

    • 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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    • Sussman, C. S. “Review of Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital.” Social History, vol. 33, Feb. 2008, pp. 80–82.
    • Sussman, C. S. “Life and Letters in the City.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 47, June 2007.
    • Sussman, C. S. A Cultural History of English Literature, 1660-1789. Polity Press, 2007.
    • 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.
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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.
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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.
    • Sussman, C. S. “The Art of Oblivion: Charlotte Smith and Helen of Troy.” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, vol. 27, 1998, pp. 131–47.
    • Sussman, C. S. “Lismahago’s Captivity: Transculturaion in Humphry Clinker.” Elh, vol. 61, 1994, pp. 597–618.
    • Sussman, C. “Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792.” Representations, vol. 48, Jan. 1994, pp. 48–69. Scopus, doi:10.2307/2928610.
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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.

  • Book Sections

    • 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.
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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.
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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.
    • 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.
    • Sussman, C. S. “Stories for the Keepsake.” The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, edited by Esther Schor, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 163–80.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  • Other Articles

    • Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian. Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Literature. Liverpool University Press, Nov. 2008.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ENGLISH 996: Practicum in Teaching College English 2021
  • ENGLISH 246: Jane Austen 2020
  • ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2020
  • ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2020
  • ENGLISH 996: Practicum in Teaching College English 2020
  • ENGLISH 290-7: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2019
  • ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2019
  • ENGLISH 590S-2: Special Topics Seminar II 2019
  • ENGLISH 890T: Tutorial in Special Topics 2019
  • ENGLISH 891: Special Readings 2019
  • HISTORY 393: Research Independent Study 2019
  • HOUSECS 59: House Course 2019
  • MEDREN 390: Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2019
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Exile, Colonization and the Global: Felicia Hemans’s New World Poems. December 29, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Story+ Project Leader. Story+. 2020  2020
  • Bass Connections Team Leader. Representing Migration through Digital Humanities. 2019 - 2020  2019 - 2020
  • Data+ Project Leader. Data+. 2019  2019
  • Story+ Project Leader. Story+. 2019  2019
  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Data+ Project Lead. 2018  2018

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