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Franny Nudelman is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on U.S. culture from the 19th century to the present, emphasizing war studies, documentary activism, and African American cultural history. Key areas include military psychiatry's impact on sleep studies, anti-war movements, and the intersection of cultural production with political conflict.
Dr. Nudelman's academic trajectory includes prior roles at Yale University (1992-97) and the University of Virginia (1997-2006), where she authored John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War (2004). At Carleton since 2006, she has published Fighting Sleep: The War for the Mind and the US Military (2019) and co-edited Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture After 1945 (2018). Her work examines how documentary practices became instruments for social justice, particularly in anti-war contexts.
- Education:
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley
- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- Research Highlights:
- Documentary activism post-1945
- U.S. military's psychological experiments
- War trauma and cultural memory
- African American resistance narratives
Her scholarly contributions include SSHRC grants for projects like Anti-War Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the United States, 1945-1974 (2009-2012) and collaborative work on biopolitical literature. She has also developed educational programs for high school teachers on 1960s counterculture and Civil War poetry.
- Recent Awards:
- Carleton University Development Grant (2017-18)
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant collaborator (2016–2018)
- Advising: Supervised PhD students including Andrew Connolly, Robert Mousseau, and Robert Hutton.
Her lectures and presentations address topics like militarism's environmental impacts, trauma documentation, and the legacy of John Brown’s abolitionism. Nudelman’s interdisciplinary approach bridges literature, history, and media studies to analyze power structures and cultural resistance.
