Susan Weisser | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

PhD in English, Columbia University (1987)

Recent Courses

Women And Literature

Specialization/Interests

Special interest: Literature and Culture of Romanticism

Nineteenth century British literature
Women's studies and feminism
Early twentieth century literature
Autobiography and Memoir
Cultural Studies

Research Interests

Nineteenth century novel
Autobiography
Romantic love and gender

Books

Susan Ostrov Weisser (2013). The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories. Rutgers U. Press.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, ed. Women and Romance. New York University Press, NY, 2001.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, A Craving Vacancy: Women and Sexual Love in the British Novel, 1740-1880. New York University Press, NY, 1997. British Edition: Macmillan, London,

Susan Ostrov Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, eds. Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds. New York University Press, NY, 1994.

Chapters

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Loneliness, Emptiness, and Wordsworth's 'Bliss of Solitude', in Loneliness and Longing: Psychoanalytic Reflections, ed. Brent Willock, et al, NY: Routledge Press, 2012: 113-120.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Thornfield and the 'Dream to Repose On': Jane Eyre", in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, ed. Harold Bloom, NY: Chelsea House Publications, 1996 (reprinted 2009), 75-96.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "What Kind of Life Do I Have?: The Gendering of a Self-Narrative", in Getting a Life: Autobiography in Everyday Life. Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith, eds., Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996: 249-270.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "The Wonderful/Terrible Bitch Figure in Romance Novels", in Feminist Nightmares, eds. Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner. NY: New York University Press, 1994: 269-282.

Jerome Bruner and Susan Ostrov Weisser, "The Invention of Self: Autobiography and its Forms," in Literacy and Orality, ed. D. Olsen and S. Torrence. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1991: 129-148.

Articles

Susan Ostrov Weisser, “Feminist Researcher Wishes to Meet Romantic Subject: The “Case” of Mrs. F., Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS). Vol. 6, 2017: 1-20.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, and the Meaning of Love." Bronte Studies Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006: 93-108.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Wild Desire and Quenchless Will: Sexual Love and the Female Self in Wuthering Heights." Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 7, no. 4, 1990: 487-500.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Gwendolen's Hidden Wound: Sexual Possibilities and Impossibilities in Daniel Deronda." Modern Language Studies, Vol. 20, no. 3, 1990: 3-13.

Invited Presentations

Keynote Address, Jane Austen Society, New York, October 2018

Other Work

Susan Ostrov Weisser, ed., D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Introduction and Notes by Susan Weisser, Barnes and Noble Press, 2005.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, ed., Jane Austen, Persuasion, Introduction and Notes by Susan Weisser, Barnes and Noble Press, 2004.

Susan Ostrov Weisser, ed., Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Introduction and Notes by Susan Weisser, Barnes and Noble Press, 2003.

Creative Scholarship

"Panel member". Participated in a panel discussion, "What is the 'Real' in Reality Television?". NYU/Gallaltin Division. October 2007.

"Panel member". Participation in a panel on Jane Eyre following a performance of the adaptation of the novel by The Acting Company in New York City. The Acting Company. April 2007.

Dissertations Chaired

Susan Ostrov Weisser, "Wild Desire and Quenchless Will: Sexual Love and the Female Self in Wuthering Heights." Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 7, no. 4, 1990: 487-500.