Susan M. Ryan

Appointments

• Associate Professor
• Director of Graduate Studies

Departments

• Current Faculty

Location

• Room 315 D
• Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

• 502-852-6801

Email Address

• sryan at louisville.edu

Website

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Bio

Office Hours:

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 310 - 02: Writing About Literature (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 311 - 02: American Literature I (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 318 - 01: American Literature to 1830 (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 311 - 02: American Literature I (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 662 - 20: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Prose (Summer, 2006)
ENGL 681 - 01: Seminar in Special Studies (Spring, 2006)

Educational Background

• Ph.D. from Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching Areas

• Early American and Nineteenth-Century American literature, esp. the literatures of slavery and the history of literary taste.

Research Interests

• Research interests: U.S. reform movements and the shaping of racial and national identities; the history of authorship; and American periodicals.
• I've recently begun a new project titled "The Moral Economies of American Authorship, 1830-1870."

Publications

• The Grammar of Good Intentions

  The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence (Cornell University Press, 2003).

• Charity Begins at Home

  "Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship." American Literature 72 (2000): 751-83.

• Misgivings

  "Misgivings: Melville, Race, and the Ambiguities of Benevolence." American Literary History 12 (2000): 685-712.

• Acquiring Minds

  "Acquiring Minds: Commodified Knowledge and the Positioning of the Reader in McClure's Magazine, 1893-1903." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 22 (1997): 211-38.

• Rough Ways and Rough Work

  "'Rough Ways and Rough Work': Jacob Riis, Social Reform, and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Violence." ATQ: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 11 (1997): 191-212.

• Errand into Africa

  Special issue: "Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century America." "Errand into Africa: Colonization and Nation Building in Sarah J. Hale's Liberia." New England Quarterly 68 (1995): 558-83.