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Susan E. Gustafson is the Karl F. and Bertha A. Fuchs Professor of German Studies and Director of the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on 18th- to 20th-century German literature, gender studies, aesthetic theory, and psychoanalysis. She has published extensively on authors like Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and Kafka, with a notable emphasis on queer theory and same-sex identity in German Classicism.
Education: Studied German at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Davis, and Stanford University.
Awards:
- GSA/DAAD Book Prize (2004)
- Goergen Teaching Award (2006)
Teaching: Courses include 'Monsters, Ghosts, and Aliens,' 'Kafka, Poe, and Hoffmann,' and 'Sexuality and Gender in the 18th Century.'
Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, engaging themes like family structures, feminism, and the intersection of literature with philosophy and psychology.
