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Charlotte S. Sussman is a Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Duke University's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1992) and has served in various leadership roles including Director of Graduate Studies (2019–2021) and Director of Undergraduate Studies (2008–2011). Her research focuses on migration narratives, colonial and postcolonial literature, and 18th-/19th-century British literature, with recent work engaging digital humanities and geospatial analysis of historical data.
Her publications include the Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture (2023) and articles on topics like the Middle Passage and Mediterranean migration crises. She co-led the Bass Connections project Representing Migration through Digital Humanities and has received awards such as the Richard Lublin Teaching Award (2020). Her teaching emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to literature and cultural studies.
- Education: B.A. Yale University (1987), M.A. and Ph.D. Cornell University (1990, 1992)
- Professional Service: Advisory Board Member for Eighteenth Century Studies (2022–2025)
- Outreach: Leadership roles in Duke's Story+ and Data+ programs
Her research bridges historical literary analysis with contemporary global issues, often collaborating across disciplines to explore themes of mobility, memory, and cultural transformation.
