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

  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2017
  • Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013
• Recognition
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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 Sussman, C. Preface. January 1, 2010.  Full Text
    • Heydt-Stevenson, J, and Sussman, C. Recognizing the romantic novel: New histories of British fiction, 1780–1830. January 1, 2010.  Full Text
    • Sussman, CS. Imagining the British Population: British Literature in an Age of Mass Migration 1660-1838. 2005.
    • Sussman, CS. Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833. Stanford University Press, 2000.

  • Book Sections

    • Heydt-Stevenson, J, and Sussman, C. "‘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. January 1, 2010. 13-48.  Full Text
    • Sussman, CS. "The Empty Spaces of The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration and Depopulation." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. The Gale Group, 2007.
    • Sussman, CS. "Memory and Mobility: Fictions of Population in Defoe, Goldsmith and Scott." The Eighteenth-Century Novel: Companion to Literature and Culture. Ed. P Backscheider and C Ingrassia. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 191-214.
    • Sussman, CS. "Stories for the Keepsake." The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Ed. E Schor. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 163-180.
    • Sussman, CS. "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. Ed. N Smith and T Morton. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 133-151.
    • Sussman, CS. "The Other Problem with Women: Reproduction and Slave Culture in Aphra Behn’s ’Oroonoko’." Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory and Criticism. Ed. H Hunter. University of Virginia Press, 1993. 212-231.

  • Journal Articles

    • Sussman, C. "Epic, Exile, and the Global: Felicia Hemans's The Forest Sanctuary." Nineteenth-Century Literature 65.4 (March 2011): 481-512.  Full Text
    • Sussman, C. "Time Wandering: Problems of Witnessing in the Romantic-Era Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43.1 (March 1, 2010): 140-147.  Full Text
    • Sussman, CS. "Review of Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital." Social History 33 (February 2008): 80-82. (Review)
    • Sussman, CS. "Life and Letters in the City." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 47 (June 2007). (Review)
    • Sussman, CS. "A Cultural History of English Literature, 1660-1789." (2007).
    • Sussman, C. "The colonial afterlife of political arithmetic: Swift, demography, and mobile populations." Cultural Critique 56 (December 1, 2004): 96-126. (Review)
    • Sussman, C. "“Islanded in the World”: Cultural Memory and Human Mobility in The Last Man." PMLA 118.2 (March 2003): 286-301.  Full Text
    • Sussman, CS. "The Empty Spaces of The Heart of Midlothian: Nation, Narration and Depopulation." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15.1 (October 2002): 105-126.
    • Sussman, CS. "The Art of Oblivion: Charlotte Smith and Helen of Troy." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 27 (1998): 131-147.
    • Sussman, CS. "Lismahago’s Captivity: Transculturaion in Humphry Clinker." ELH 61 (1994): 597-618.
    • Sussman, CS. "Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792." Representations 48: 48-69.
    • Sussman, CS. "’I Wonder whether poor Miss Sally Godfrey be living or dead’: The Married Woman and the Rise of the Novel." Diacritics 20.1: 88-102.

  • Other Articles

    • Heydt-Stevenson, J. "Recognizing the Romantic Novel: New Histories of British Literature." (November 2008).
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ENGLISH 390S-7: Special Topics in Language and Literature 2018
  • ENGLISH 497: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2018
  • ENGLISH 590S-2: Special Topics Seminar II 2018
  • ENGLISH 890T: Tutorial in Special Topics 2018
  • ENGLISH 246: Jane Austen 2017
  • ENGLISH 398: Digital Media Internship 2017
  • ENGLISH 498: Distinction Critical Research Independent Study 2017
  • ENGLISH 184S: Readings in Genre 2016
  • ENGLISH 540S: Special Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (DS3) 2016
• 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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