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Susan Meyer is a Professor of English at Wellesley College, affiliated with both the Department of English & Creative Writing and Jewish Studies. Her academic work bridges Victorian literature and American modernist studies, with particular focus on intersections of race, gender, and colonialism in 19th-century British fiction and Willa Cather's work.
- Education: B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, M.A. from UCLA, M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University
- Key Research Areas: Literature and history, public health metaphors in fiction, Jewish identity in modernist works, social resistance in Victorian novels
In her scholarship, Meyer examines how Victorian authors like Brontë and Eliot used racial dynamics as metaphors for domestic gender relations. Recent projects analyze tuberculosis and sanitation discourses in Cather's writing.
Her children's literature addresses WWII-era Jewish refugee experiences (Black Radishes, Skating with the Statue of Liberty) and civil rights struggles (New Shoes). These works have earned Sydney Taylor Honor Awards, Bank Street College Best Books, and Jane Addams Peace Association recognition.
Teaching interests include 19th-century British literature, early 20th-century American literature, and creative writing pedagogy focused on children's historical fiction. She maintains active research profiles in feminist criticism and transatlantic literary studies.
