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Susanna Lee is a Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. She holds a secondary appointment as LCL Convener. Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural and historical contexts, focusing on 19th-century French novels, crime fiction, and law-humanities intersections.
Research interests include: 1)Nineteenth-century French novel (e.g., Stendhal's Red and the Black); 2)Twentieth-century crime fiction with emphasis on hard-boiled narratives; 3)Popular culture and its literary manifestations; 4)Law and humanities interdisciplinary studies. Recent projects explore secularism in narrative structures and moral authority dynamics.
Publications include three monographs and two critical editions. Notable works: Detectives in the Shadows (2020), analyzing hard-boiled detective fiction's sociohistorical context; Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction (2016), examining moral authority's decline; and A World Abandoned by God (2006), probing secularism in 19th-century narratives.
Her edited editions include Norton Critical Editions of Proust's Swann's Way (2013) and Stendhal's Red and the Black (2007). Current research continues exploring intersections between crime narratives and cultural theory.
