
safischer@mec.cuny.edu
718-270-4940
B-1015-A
Susan Alice Fischer, PhD
School of Liberal Arts
English and World Languages
Education:
English and Media Studies/Human Rights and Education
Bio
Susan Alice Fischer has taught at 糖心原创 since 2001 and has developed many of the courses she teaches, including 鈥淔rom Windrush to Brexit and Beyond: 鈥楻ace鈥 and Nation in Contemporary British Literature,鈥 鈥淪lavery, Emancipation, and Empire in British Literature,鈥 and 鈥淎fro-European Literature and Culture Today.鈥 Her research centers on 20th- and 21st-century British fiction, especially contemporary women鈥檚 urban novels and transnational literature. Her more recent research interests encompass diverse literary voices in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain and in contemporary Italy. Fischer has presented her research internationally, mostly in Europe, both as an invited speaker and as a conference participant. She has extensive editorial experience and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Taylor & Francis). Publications include the edited volume Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic) and research on diverse authors and topics, including Black British women鈥檚 writing and literary institutions, ethics in contemporary women鈥檚 fiction, and London literature. Her book reviews have appeared in The Women鈥檚 Review of Books, The Literary London Journal, and elsewhere. Recent work includes a chapter on the novel The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox in Maggie O鈥橣arrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic) and an essay on Kwame Kwei-Armah鈥檚 play Beneatha鈥檚 Place in Blacklines: The Journal of Black British Writing.