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Susan L. Mizruchi<\/h2>\n

Department of English
\nBoston University
\n236 Bay State Road
\nBoston, Massachusetts 02215
\n617-358-2529 (Office)
\nmizruchi@bu.edu (E-Mail)

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Chronicle of Higher Education Profile<\/a>
\nThe Chronicle of Higher Education: “A Literary Scholar Examines the Role That Sacrifice Plays in Modern Western Society”<\/p>\n

Lolita<\/em> in History<\/a>
\nAmerican Literature: “Lolita<\/em> in History”<\/p>\n

School of Martyrdom<\/a>Religion and Literature: “The School of Martyrdom”<\/p>\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n
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  1. Education<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Academic Positions<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Publications<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Lectures and Papers<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Teaching<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Professional Activity<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Academic Honors<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Presentations\/Interviews for Brando’s Smile<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Books Under Contract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Education<\/h3>\n

    Ph.D. Princeton University, Department of English, 1985
    \nM.A. Princeton University, Department of English, 1983
    \nB.A. Washington University (St. Louis) Departments of English and History, 1981<\/p>\n

    Academic Positions<\/h3>\n

    Lecturer on English at Princeton University, 1985-86
    \nAssistant Professor of English at Boston University, 1986-1992
    \nAssociate Professor of English at Boston University, 1992-1998
    \nProfessor of English at Boston University, 1998-
    \nDirector, Boston University Center for the Humanities, 2016-2023
    \nWilliam Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities, 2017-<\/p>\n

    Publications<\/h3>\n

    Books:<\/h4>\n
      \n
    • A Very Short Introduction: Henry James\u00a0<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)<\/li>\n
    • Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work<\/em> (Norton, 2014; paperback, 2015); Film Rights Sold, 2016<\/li>\n
    • The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press, 2008, completely revised version of 2005 Cambridge Book, w\/new chapter four)<\/li>\n
    • Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860-1920<\/em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Chinese Translation published 2008<\/li>\n
    • The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory<\/em> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998) reprinted as an electronic book from Princeton University Press, 2002.<\/li>\n
    • The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser<\/em> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988). Part of Chapter Four reprinted in The Bostonians (New York: Everyman, 1994)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Books Edited:<\/h4>\n
        \n
      • Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)<\/em><\/li>\n
      • Religion and Cultural Studies<\/em> (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Articles<\/h4>\n
          \n
        • “The School of Martyrdom: Culture and Class in ‘Catcher in the Rye,” Religion and Literature<\/em> (Summer 2015), pp. 23-40.<\/li>\n
        • “Marlon Brando Biographies,” Marlon Brando Official Website<\/em> (August, 2012); \u201cBrando for Our Times\u201d Medium.Com <\/i>(July 1, 2014); \u201cBrando vs. Coppola: Debunking the Myth of Apocalypse Now\u201d Huffington Post.Com <\/i>(July, 2014); “Discovering Brando: Review of Listen To Me Marlon<\/em>” Eat\/Drink\/Films<\/em>.Com, Issue 68, 8\/8\/15<\/li>\n
        • “Risk Theory and the Contemporary American Novel,” American Literary History<\/em> (Spring 2010), pp. 1-27.<\/li>\n
        • “Loose Canons and Representative Works in Religion and Literature,” Religion and Literature<\/em> (Fall 2009)<\/li>\n
        • “Gibson’s ‘Passion’ in Ethical Perspective,” Journal of Renmin<\/em> University of China, 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 82-86.<\/li>\n
        • “Lolita<\/em> in History,” American Literature<\/em> 75 (September 2003), pp. 629-652.<\/li>\n
        • “Becoming Multicultural,” American Literary History<\/em> 15 (Spring 2003), pp. 39-60.<\/li>\n
        • “The Place of Ritual in Our Time,” American Literary History<\/em> 12 (Fall 2000), pp. 467-492 and Religion and Cultural Studies<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 56-79.<\/li>\n
        • “Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. DuBois,” in Centuries’ Ends, Narrative Means<\/em>, ed. Robert D. Newman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 191-211; 355-360; reprinted in The Norton Critical Edition of The Souls of Black Folk<\/em> ed. Henry Louis Gates (New York: Norton, 1999).<\/li>\n
        • “Reproducing Women in the Awkward Age,” Representations<\/em> (Spring, 1992), pp. 107-136. Reprinted in Working Papers<\/em> 27 (1991), pp. 1-49, John F. Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin, Germany.<\/li>\n
        • “Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: ‘Billy Budd, Sailor’ and the Rise of Sociology,” in Special Issue of Boundary 2<\/em> on American Literature and Historicism 17 (Spring, 1990), pp. 272-304. Reprinted in Americanist Interventions into the Canon<\/em> ed. Donald Pease (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994).<\/li>\n
        • “The Imagination as Cultural Space,” New England Quarterly<\/em> 62 (March, 1989), pp. 105-115.<\/li>\n
        • “The Uses of History in American Literary Scholarship, or, What We Mean When We Talk About History,” Western Humanities Review<\/em> 41 (Fall, 1987), pp. 290-300.<\/li>\n
        • “The Politics of Temporality in The Bostonians” Nineteenth-Century Fiction<\/em> 40 (Fall, 1985), pp. 1987-215.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Contributions to Books:<\/h4>\n
            \n
          • “Gertrude Stein,” Companion to American Thought<\/em> ed. Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers), 1996.<\/li>\n
          • “Fiction and the Science of Society,” The Columbia History of the American Novel<\/em> (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), pp. 189-215.<\/li>\n
          • “John Barnard,” Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 24: American Colonial Literature<\/em> (1984), pp. 10-12.<\/li>\n
          • “Thomas Reid,” Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 31: American Colonial Literature<\/em> (1985), pp. 318-321.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Fiction:<\/h4>\n
              \n
            • “Like A Rose Rabbi,” Kansas Quarterly<\/em>, 15 (Winter, 1983), pp. 63-74.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Lectures and Papers<\/h3>\n
                \n
              • \u201cPracticing the Public Humanities,\u201d Invited Lecture, Tolley Lecture Series, <\/em>Syracuse University, February 25, 2025<\/li>\n
              • Interview for Documentary, Marlon’s Paradise<\/em>, Berlin Productions, November 22, 2023<\/li>\n
              • “Why It’s Possible To Love Henry James and <\/em> TV Serials,” A Matrix of Challenges Conference, Boston University, April 4, 2022<\/li>\n
              • “Susan Mizruchi on Henry James,” Podcast, Oxford University Press, September 1, 2021<\/li>\n
              • “The Best of Henry James,” Publisher’s Weekly<\/em> (online publication, 2021)<\/li>\n
              • “The Literature of Forced Displacement,” Conference on “The Role of the University in the Crisis of Forced Displacement,” BU, September 27, 2019<\/li>\n
              • “Democratizing Addiction: The Epic Ambitions of Infinite Jest <\/em>and Breaking Bad<\/em>,” Annual Vardi Memorial Lecture<\/em>, Tel Aviv University, May 30,2019<\/li>\n
              • “The Literature of Grief,” Symposium on Death and Dying, BU School of Public Health, Co-sponsored by BUCH, February 12, 2019<\/li>\n
              • “Democratizing Addiction: The Epic Ambitions of Infinite Jest <\/em>and Breaking Bad<\/em>,” BUCH Forum, “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis,” October 13, 2018<\/li>\n
              • Annual Gitner Lecture, Boston University, “Narratives: Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis,” September 20, 2018<\/li>\n
              • “Discovering Brando,” American Studies Lecture Series<\/em>, September 28, 2017, Friends Speaker Series<\/em>, Howard Gotlieb Archives, October 12, 2017, Morning Lectures<\/em>, BUA Academy, November 9, 2017<\/li>\n
              • “A Humanities Approach to the Opioid Crisis” Public Lecture, The Boston Athenaeum<\/em>, June 13, 2017<\/li>\n
              • “Brando’s Library,” Keynote Lecture, “The Promise of Paradise Conference on Private Libraries,” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 18, 2016<\/li>\n
              • “Brando Film Politics: Overturning the Myth of the 1960s Films,” Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 30, 2015<\/li>\n
              • “The School of Martyrdom: Reconsidering ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Raymond Schwager Memorial Lecture, Notre Dame University, July 1, 2010; Boston University Evergreen Lecture, October 26, 2010<\/li>\n
              • “Risk Theory and the Contemporary American Novel,” Boston University Humanities Foundation, December 8, 2008; Notre Dame University, December 12, 2008<\/li>\n
              • “Four Exercises in Literary History,” Washington University in St. Louis, January 11, 2007<\/li>\n
              • “Rewriting American Literary Realism,” University of California, Irvine, March 1, 2006<\/li>\n
              • “Gibson’s ‘Passion’ in Ethical Perspective,” American Literature Division Panel, MLA, 2004<\/li>\n
              • “Lolita in History,” Lectures on Criticism, Boston University, September 18, 2003<\/li>\n
              • “Commentary” Panel on “Jews and Others,” American Literature Association Convention, May 23, 2003<\/li>\n
              • “Becoming Multicultural” (expanded lecture version of ALA 2001 paper), Syracuse University, December 4, 2002<\/li>\n
              • “Becoming Multicultural,” Panel on Literary History, American Literature Association Convention, May 25, 2001<\/li>\n
              • “Religion and Cultural Studies,” University of Pennsylvania, March 28, 2001<\/li>\n
              • “Lolita in History,” Bryan Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington (January 22, 2001)<\/li>\n
              • “The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory,” Food for Thought Lecture Series, Marsh Chapel, Boston University (May 4, 1999)<\/li>\n
              • “The Place of Ritual in Our Time” Brandeis University (December 16, 1998); Harvard University (April 29, 1999)<\/li>\n
              • “Getting Religion” The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth University (June 25, 1998); Aesthetics and Difference Conference, University of California, Riverside (October 25, 1998); History in the Making Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, (March 26, 1999)<\/li>\n
              • “The Science of Sacrifice” (December, 1997, MLA Convention, “Imagining Religion in an Era of Cultural Studies,” Special Session, Session Organizer)<\/li>\n
              • “Neighbors, Strangers, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. DuBois” Huntington Library (May 6, 1995) and University of California, Santa Barbara (June 1, 1995)<\/li>\n
              • “The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory” Huntington Library Research Reports (April 25, 1995)<\/li>\n
              • “Sacrificial Arts and Sciences” Claremont Graduate School (April 18, 1995)<\/li>\n
              • “W.E.B. DuBois and the Dialogue of Death” (December, 1994, MLA Convention, “The African-American Author as Sociologist,” Special Session, Session Organizer)<\/li>\n
              • “Strangers, Neighbors, Corpses: Death and Sympathy in the Early Writings of W.E.B. DuBois” (Centuries Ends, Narrative Means Conference, Texas A&M University, April, 1994)<\/li>\n
              • “Social Marks: Typology and Method in Giddings, Stein, and DuBois” The Hebrew University, Jersualem (May 30, 1993)<\/li>\n
              • “Gertrude Stein and the Art of Social Description” (University of Rome, April 27, 1993)<\/li>\n
              • “Social Marks: Typology and Method in Giddings, Stein, and DuBois” (Northwestern University, October 2, 1992)<\/li>\n
              • “Typology in Giddings and Stein” (American Studies Association Convention, November, 1992)<\/li>\n
              • “From Philadelphia Negroes to Black Souls: W.E.B. DuBois and the Science of Society” (American Literature Association Convention, May 26, 1991)<\/li>\n
              • “The Social Context of Literary Study” (Vanderbilt U., May 14, 1991)<\/li>\n
              • “Reproducing Women in Henry James” (Free University, Berlin, April 27, 1991)<\/li>\n
              • “Billy Budd, Sailor and the Late Nineteenth-Century Context” (University of Venice, April 23, 1991)<\/li>\n
              • “Reproducing Women in Henry James” (University of California, Berkeley, March 1, 1991)<\/li>\n
              • “Women and Marriage in Gyp and James” (French Literature Panel on Social Theory and Social Fiction, December, 1990 MLA Convention)<\/li>\n
              • “American New Historicism At The Turn Of The Century: The Critic as Social Scientist” (Special Session, December, 1988 MLA Convention)<\/li>\n
              • “Bridging Personality and Society: The Subject as Type in Simmel and Weber” (Marxist Literary Group Panel, December, 1987 MLA Convention)<\/li>\n
              • “Literary Concord” (USIA English Teaching Institute, August, 1986)<\/li>\n
              • “Strategies of Forgetting in Henry James” (Special Session, December, 1986 MLA Convention)<\/li>\n
              • “The Possibilities for Feminine Critical History in James” (James Society, NEMLA Convention, April, 1986)<\/li>\n
              • “Narrating the Truths of the Hearth: The Power of History in Hawthorne” (Special Session, December, 1985 MLA Convention)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                Teaching<\/h3>\n

                Courses:<\/h4>\n
                  \n
                • American Realism and Naturalism<\/li>\n
                • American Stereotypes: Readings in American Literature<\/li>\n
                • American Studies Seminar<\/li>\n
                • The Contemporary American Novel<\/li>\n
                • Death and Mourning in the Era of American Realism (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • The Double American Renaissance (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Feminist Theory (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Feminist Theory<\/li>\n
                • Gender and Ritual in the American Novel (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Henry James and the New Media (Graduate and Undergraduate)<\/li>\n
                • Introduction to Literary Theory (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Love and Death in Twentieth-Century Fiction of the Americas<\/li>\n
                • The Modern American Novel<\/li>\n
                • The Myth of the Family in Classic American Film, Literature, and TV<\/li>\n
                • The Nineteenth-Century American Novel<\/li>\n
                • Nineteen-Fifties America (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • On the Road in American Literature and Film<\/li>\n
                • Proseminar in Literature: Renaissance Love\/Modern Death<\/li>\n
                • Readings in Modern Literature<\/li>\n
                • Religion and Violence in American Culture (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Religion and Violence in American Culture<\/li>\n
                • Rewriting American Realism (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Risk and Contemporary American Culture (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Survey of English Literature: Defoe to Woolf<\/li>\n
                • Texts and Contexts in the Writings of Henry James (Graduate Seminar)<\/li>\n
                • Writing Women: Crossing Cultures and Genres in Modern to Contemporary Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Graduate Supervision (American Studies, English, Religion):<\/h4>\n

                  Dissertation Director:<\/h4>\n
                    \n
                  • Shitsuyo Masui (AS) Degree, 1995: “Women, Witchcraft, and Religion in Hawthorne’s Novels”<\/li>\n
                  • Molly Childers (EN) Degree 1998: “Female Adolescence in the American Novel”<\/li>\n
                  • David Shawn (AS) Degree, 1998: “The Transformation of Oratory in Antebellum America”<\/li>\n
                  • Jeanne Quinn (EN) Degree, 2000: “Democratic Aesthetics in the 1930s”<\/li>\n
                  • Naomi Sofer (EN) Degree, 2000: “Rites of Authorship: Women and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Novels”<\/li>\n
                  • Bryan Waterman (AS) Degree, 2000: “The Friendly Club and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Cultures”<\/li>\n
                  • Sohui Lee (EN) Degree, 2001: “The Pens of the Democratic Party”<\/li>\n
                  • Jennifer Ho (EN) Degree, 2002: “Consumption in Contemporary Asian-American Literature”<\/li>\n
                  • Kathy Lawrence (AS) Degree, 2003: “Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy”<\/li>\n
                  • Elif Armbruster (AS) Degree 2005: “Reading Three Dimensions: Nineteenth-Century Authors & Architecture”<\/li>\n
                  • Marjorie Purnine (RE) Degree 2005: “Sentimental Pieties: Literary and Religious Crises of Loss”<\/li>\n
                  • Thomas Nesbit (RE) Degree 2005: “Spiritualizing Excess in the Writings of Henry Miller”<\/li>\n
                  • John Tessitore (AS): Degree 2006 “Whitmania: Poet Worship and the Free Religion Association”<\/li>\n
                  • Johnny Lew (AS): Degree 2006 “Travels in a World Economy, 1492-1666”<\/li>\n
                  • Christine Kraemer (RE): Degree 2007 “The Erotic Fringe: Sexual Minorities and Religion”<\/li>\n
                  • Stephen Hodin (AS): Degree 2008 “Jefferson’s Ghost: Slavery and Machinery in America”<\/li>\n
                  • Joshua Pederson (RE): Degree 2008 “Gnostic Worlds in Contemporary American Culture”<\/li>\n
                  • Hannah Carlson (AS): Degree 2008 “Pockets, Possessions and the Ordering of Things”<\/li>\n
                  • Eoin Cannon (EN): Degree 2009 “Religions of Recovery: Addiction in Modern Culture”<\/li>\n
                  • Diane Hotten-Somers (AS): Degree 2011 “Ethnicity and Cultural Nationalism in Irish Drama”<\/li>\n
                  • Patton Dodd (RE): Degree 2011 “Religious Violence in Film”<\/li>\n
                  • John Barnard (EN): Degree 2011 “Icarian Exceptions: Race, Revision, and American Myth”<\/li>\n
                  • Gillian Mason (AS): Degree 2012 “Censorship, Obscenity, and American Culture, 1970-1986”<\/li>\n
                  • Stephanie Byttebier (EN): Degree 2012 “Trials of Empathy in James and Cather”<\/li>\n
                  • Arielle Zibrak (EN): Degree 2013 “Aesthetic Counter Traditions in Anglo-American Culture”<\/li>\n
                  • Jessica Kent (EN): Degree 2015 “Novelizing James: Contemporary Fiction’s Obsession with The Master and His Work”<\/li>\n
                  • Heather Holcombe (EN): Degree 2015 “Made in America: Fictions of Genetic Industry”<\/li>\n
                  • Erin Salius (EN): Degree 2015 “The Catholic Margin in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery”<\/li>\n
                  • Paul Edwards (AS): Degree 2017 \u201cLouis Douglas and Jonny Spielt Auf<\/em>: Performing Blackness in Interwar Germany\u201d<\/li>\n
                  • Christine D’Auria (AS): Degree 2022 Before the Blacklist: The Fiction and Film Work of Hollywood Screenwriters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    Second Reader:<\/h4>\n
                      \n
                    • Frederick DiMarco (EN), Degree, 1989<\/li>\n
                    • Julia Grant (AS) Degree, 1990<\/li>\n
                    • Kristin Flieger Samuelian (EN), Degree, 1991<\/li>\n
                    • Dierdre Phelps (EN), Degree, 1993<\/li>\n
                    • Katie Kodat (EN), Degree, 1993<\/li>\n
                    • Kristin King (EN), Degree, 1994<\/li>\n
                    • Kim Sanders (AS) Degree, 1994<\/li>\n
                    • Mark Eaton (EN), Degree, 1996<\/li>\n
                    • Amal Amireh (EN) Degree, 1997<\/li>\n
                    • Becky Noel (AS) Degree, 1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      In addition, I have served as examiner on seventy-five PhD qualifying exams in English, American Studies, and Religion.<\/p>\n

                      Professional Activity<\/h3>\n
                        \n
                      • Reviewer for Fellows Program, The American Academy in Berlin, 2022-<\/li>\n
                      • Advisory Board of Teacher as Scholars<\/em>, 2022-<\/li>\n
                      • Reviewer, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2020-<\/li>\n
                      • Advisory Board of Museum of Fine Arts<\/em>, 2018-<\/li>\n
                      • Board Member of The Boston Public Library’s <\/em>Anti-Slavery Collection, 2017-<\/li>\n
                      • National Humanities Association, Conference Planning Committee, 2016-<\/li>\n
                      • Advisory Board of The History Makers<\/em>, 2016-<\/li>\n
                      • U.S. Delegate for Literature, Film, and Media Studies, Oxford University Press, 2016-<\/li>\n
                      • U.S. Delegate for Literature, Oxford University Press, 2011-2016<\/li>\n
                      • Consultant for Oxford University Press, 2023-<\/li>\n
                      • Advisory Council, Princeton University English Dept., 2013-<\/li>\n
                      • Consultant, PBS, American Masters Documentaries, 2014-<\/li>\n
                      • Consultant, Canadian Government, Concordia University, English PhD Program, 2014<\/li>\n
                      • Tenure Review\/Promotion Committees: Concordia University, 2021; Notre Dame University, 2014; Harvard U. 2009; U. Michigan 2009; U. Pennsylvania, 2007; U. Kentucky, 2004<\/li>\n
                      • Reviewer, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 2013, 2014, 2015<\/li>\n
                      • Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, 2011, 2012, 2013<\/li>\n
                      • Reader for Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Duke University Press, U. of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Ohio State University Press, PMLA<\/em>, Early American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, The American Quarterly, American Literary History, History of the Human Sciences<\/em>.<\/li>\n
                      • Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-1995, 2000-2006<\/li>\n
                      • Selection Committee for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-2003<\/li>\n
                      • Faculty of the Teachers as Scholars Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1999-2005, 2010-2011, 2014-<\/li>\n
                      • Modern Language Association Committee on Prize for Best First Book, 1991<\/li>\n
                      • Panelist\/Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for University Teacher, 1989<\/li>\n
                      • Boston University: Faculty Council, 1993-4; Dean’s Chairman Search Committee; Academic Policy Committee, 1995-1998; College of Arts and Sciences Appointments and Tenure Committee, 2002-2003; Sexual Harassment Committee, 2003-2006; Division of Religion and Theological Studies Review Committee, 2006-2007; School of Hospitality Administration Dean Search Committee 2009-2010; Faculty Advisor to Burn<\/em> – Student Literary Magazine (2000-2005); Ex Libris<\/em> Advisory Committee; Faculty Advisor to Coup D’Etat<\/em>-Student Literary Magazine, 2013-; UROP Award Sponsor, 2015; Member of Jewish Cultural Endowment Board, 2016-; Member of Boston University Arts Council, 2016-; College of Fine Arts Dean Search Committee, 2016-1017; Library Head Provost’s Search Committee, 2017-2018, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean Search Committee, 2018-2019; President’s Honorary Degree Committee, 2018-2019; BU Library Vision, 2020; Founder and Director of The One and the Many BU Humanities High School Summer Program; 2021-;<\/li>\n
                      • Boston University English Department: Assistant Professor of Film Search Committee, CIMS, English Dept. 2024-2025, Promotion Committee, 2023; Visiting Professor of Film Search Committee, CIMS, English Dept. 2023; Chair of Search Committee for Director of Playwriting, 2021-2022; African-American Film Search Committee, CIMS, English Dept. 2020-2021; African-American Search Committee, 2019-2020; Senior Americanist Search Committees; Chair Junior Americanist Search Committees; English Renaissance Search Committee; Chair African Literature of the Americas Search Committee; Chair 19th C. American\/Transatlantic Poetry Search Committee; Chair Early American Transatlantic Literature Search Committee; Film Search Committee; Chair Promotion Committees, 2011, 2013; Chair Tenure Review Committee, 2014; Chair Tenure Review Committee, 2016; Mentor to Junior Faculty, 2011-, Head of Job Placement for Graduate Students, Fall 2000-1, 2014-15; Graduate Committee (1996-2001, 2013-), Lectures In Criticism Series Committee; Academic Policy Committee; Junior Appointments Committee; Department Colloquium Committee; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee; Graduate Student Exams Committee<\/li>\n
                      • Boston University American Studies Graduate Committee, 1989; 1993-4; 1995-96; 2000-01; Admissions Committee, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2008<\/li>\n
                      • Dartmouth School of Criticism and Theory, 1987<\/li>\n
                      • Member of Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, Northeastern Modern Language Association, American Studies Association<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        Academic Honors<\/h3>\n
                          \n
                        • “Practicing the Public Humanities,” Tolley Lecture Series<\/em>, Syracuse University, February 25, 2025<\/li>\n
                        • Annual Vardi Memorial Lecture, Tel Aviv University, 2019<\/li>\n
                        • William Arrowsmith Endowed Chair in Humanities, 2017-<\/li>\n
                        • Fulbright Award, Brazil, 2015<\/li>\n
                        • Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education<\/em>, 2015<\/li>\n
                        • Brando\u2019s Smile: Financial Times<\/em> \u201cBest Books of 2014\u201d; Booklist Editor’s Choice<\/em>, 2014<\/li>\n
                        • Senior Research Fellowship, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 2008-2009<\/li>\n
                        • Raymond Schwager Memorial Lecturer, Notre Dame University, 2010<\/li>\n
                        • Certificates of Appreciation, BU Class of 2007, 2008 Teacher Honoree<\/li>\n
                        • Nominated for Metcalf Teaching Award BU, 2005 (declined), 2010<\/li>\n
                        • Anne Shachter Smith Memorial Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, Fall 2003 (declined)<\/li>\n
                        • Distinguished Teaching Award, Boston University Honors Program, 2001<\/li>\n
                        • Selection Committee for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2001<\/li>\n
                        • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2001-2002<\/li>\n
                        • Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study, Senior Fellowship, 2001 (declined)<\/li>\n
                        • American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Fellowship, 2001 (declined)<\/li>\n
                        • Scholarship Profiled in The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 1998<\/li>\n
                        • Fulbright Visiting Professorship at Tel Aviv University, June, 1996 (declined)<\/li>\n
                        • Fletcher S. Jones Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 1995<\/li>\n
                        • Howard S. Eckles Fellowship, University of Utah Humanities Center, 1994-95 (declined)<\/li>\n
                        • Research Affiliate, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian (1990-91)<\/li>\n
                        • National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship for University Teachers, (1990-91)<\/li>\n
                        • Cited in Boston University Free Press as one of the best teachers at B.U., 1988<\/li>\n
                        • Junior Research Fellowship, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 1988-1989<\/li>\n
                        • Research Grant, Boston University, Summer, 1987<\/li>\n
                        • Tuition Scholarship for Dartmouth Theory School, 1987<\/li>\n
                        • Harold S. Dodds Dissertation Fellowship, Princeton U., 1984-85<\/li>\n
                        • Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, 1981-3<\/li>\n
                        • Award for Fiction, Kansas Quarterly Prizes, 1983<\/li>\n
                        • B.A., magna cum laude, Washington University, 1981<\/li>\n
                        • Student Representative: W.U. Board of Trustees, 1980-1<\/li>\n
                        • Antoinette G. Dames Award, in Political Science (W.U.), 1980<\/li>\n
                        • F. Ward Denys Prize, in English (W.U.), 1979<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                          Presentations, Interviews, Reviews for Brando’s Smile<\/em><\/h3>\n

                          Presentations<\/h4>\n
                            \n
                          • Introduction, On The Waterfront, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA, 6\/23\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, 6\/23\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA, 6\/24\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Chevalier\u2019s Books, Los Angeles, CA, 7\/13\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Introduction, Mutiny on the Bounty, New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles, CA, 7\/15\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Larry Edmunds Bookstore, Hollywood, CA, 7\/16\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Introduction, Streetcar Named Desire, The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, CA,7\/16\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Introduction, The Young Lions, The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles, CA, 7\/17\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Newtonville Books, Newton, MA, 7\/30\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Bookstore Event, Boston University Barnes and Noble, 10\/1\/14<\/li>\n
                          • Moderator for Screen Actors Guild Foundation Screening of Listen To Me Marlon<\/em>, Panel Q&A, Broadway, 7\/27\/15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            Interviews<\/h4>\n
                              \n
                            • Larry Mantle Show, KPCC NPR Live Radio, Los Angeles, CA, 6\/17\/14<\/li>\n
                            • NPR Television Network, Live Radio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 6\/20\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Frank DeCaro Show, Sirius XM Satellite Live Radio, Los Angeles, CA, 7\/10\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Judith Regan Show, Sirius XM Satellite Live Radio, New York, NY, 7\/12\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Live Radio, New York, NY, 7\/22\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Huffington Post Live Television Streaming, New York, NY 7\/22\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Dave Hodgson Show, Talk Radio Europe, Live, 7\/29\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Moncrieff Show, Newstalk Dublin, Live Radio, 7\/29\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Monocle 24 Live Radio, London, 8\/7\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Larry Rifkin Show, 1320 WATR Live Radio, Connecticut, 8\/12\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Morning Magazine, WFAW Live Radio, Wisconsin, 8\/15\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Jordan Rich Show, WBZ Radio, CBS Boston, MA, 8\/15\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Prime Time Drive, WNWS Live Radio, Tennessee, 8\/20\/14<\/li>\n
                            • Gary Shapiro: From the Bookshelf, KUSP NPR, 9\/29\/14<\/li>\n
                            • The Film Programme, BBC Radio, 2\/20\/15<\/li>\n
                            • O Globo <\/em>Interview, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7\/9\/15<\/li>\n
                            • Boston Herald Radio<\/em>, 9\/2\/15<\/li>\n
                            • Daily Telegraph<\/em>, London, 2\/11\/18<\/li>\n
                            • El Pais<\/em>, 2\/23\/18<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              Reviews<\/h4>\n
                                \n
                              • Kirkus<\/em> (5\/6\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Booklist<\/em> (Starred Review 5\/15\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Biblioklept<\/em> (6\/6\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • London Daily Express<\/em> (6\/14\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Washington Post<\/em> (6\/20\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Publishers Weekly<\/em> (6\/23\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • London Daily Mail<\/em> (6\/24\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Capital and Main<\/em> (6\/26\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Atlantic Monthly<\/em> (6\/26\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Financial Times \u201cBooks of the Year so far\u201d<\/em> (6\/30\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Wall Street Journal<\/em> (7\/3\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Boston Globe<\/em> (7\/5\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Turner Classic Movies.Com<\/em> (7\/11\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> (7\/20\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Vanity Fair<\/em> (7\/22\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Huffington Post<\/em> (7\/22\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Los Angeles Magazine<\/em> (7\/22\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Financial Times<\/em> (7\/25\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The Sunday Times, London<\/em> (7\/27\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The New York Times Book Review<\/em> (7\/27\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Omaha World-Herald<\/em> (7\/27\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • London Evening Standard<\/em> (7\/28\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Los Angeles Times<\/em> (7\/30\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Broadway Direct.com \u201cSummer 2014 Broadway Reading List\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n
                              • The Jewish Journal<\/em> (7\/31\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The London Times<\/em> (8\/9\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Slant<\/em> (8\/9\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • Sequart.org Magazine<\/em> (8\/11\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • KSKO 1080 AM Radio, Santa Cruz, CA, Live Book Review<\/em> (8\/20\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The New Statesman; The National<\/em> (9\/11\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • World Socialist<\/em> (11\/19\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The Financial Times Best Books of 2014<\/em> (11\/28\/14)<\/li>\n
                              • The New York Review of Books<\/em> (1\/8\/15)<\/li>\n
                              • Book Excerpt Published AIR Magazine<\/em>, April 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                Books Under Contract
                                \n<\/em><\/h3>\n
                                  \n
                                • Kazan: A New Life\u00a0<\/em> (Polity Press, forthcoming)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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