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Suzanne
Keen
Thomas H. Broadus Professor of English
2008 Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
Washington
and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8759
Payne Hall 32A
e-mail: skeen@wlu.edu
Education
A. B. (1984), Brown University
A. M. in Creative
Writing (1986), Brown University
Ph.D. (1990),
Harvard University
Research interests
Contemporary British fiction, Victorian
novels, postcolonial literature,
narrative theory, the novel in English,
psychological approaches to literary
study. Professor Keen's Blogs: Literature Compass and Narrative Empathy.
Teaching
English 350—Postcolonial
Literature
English 351—World Fiction in
English
English 355—Studies in British
Fiction after 1900. See also 356
English 292—Topics in British Literature
English 260—Literary Approaches
to Poverty
English 234—Children's
Literature
English
232—The Novel.
See also
207.
English 105—Composition and
Literature: Reading the Golden Compass
Frequently used handouts.
Seminar and Capstone Topics
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
and Poet (299 winter 2007)
Romancing the Archive (380 spring 2007)
Studying Literature in Action
The Brontės
George Eliot and her
Times
Philip Pullman and C. S.
Lewis: Rival Canons
Ulysses: Homer, Joyce,
Walcott
Bread Loaf
School of English (Santa Fe, NM)
Ulysses: Homer, Joyce, Walcott. 2008 syllabus.
Contemporary British Fiction. 2007 syllabus.
Moderns according to the Contemporaries. 2008 syllabus.
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Books
Empathy and the Novel. Oxford UP,
2007. Publisher's Information.
Milk Glass Mermaid. Lewis Clark P, 2007. Publisher's Information.
Narrative Form. Palgrave, 2003. Publisher's information.
Romances of the
Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2001. Excerpts on the web. Paperback
edition, 2003.
Victorian Renovations of the Novel:
Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of
Representation. Nineteenth-Century
Literature and Culture 15. Ed.
Gillian Beer and Catherine Gallagher.
Cambridge UP, 1998. Paperback edition,
2005. NetLibrary information.
Selected Articles
“Strategic Empathizing.” Deutschevierteljahrschrifte (DVJs)(forthcoming in 2008); to be reprinted in German translation in Narrative Identification, ed. Fritz Breithaupt and Claudia Breger. Freiburg/Breisgau: Rombach, forthcoming in 2009.
“Magical Values in Recent Romances of the Archive,” Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives, ed. Sas Mays. Rodopi, forthcoming in 2009.
“Psychological Approcahes to Thomas Hardy.” Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy. Ed. Rosemarie Morgan. Ashgate, forthcominng in 2008. “Teaching Narrative Theory in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom.” Options for Teaching Narrative Theory. Eds. James Phelan, Brian McHale, and David Herman. MLA: forthcoming in 2008.
“A Theory of Narrative Empathy.” Narrative (Fall, 2006) 207-36.
“The Fantasy Man: The Strange Brilliance of John Crowley.” Commonweal (11 August 2006) 13-16.
“The Historical Turn in British Fiction.” Concise
Companion to Contemporary British Fiction.
Ed. James English. Blackwell, 2005. 167-87.
“‘I cannot eat my words but I
do’: Food, Body and Word in the
Novels of Jeanette Winterson.” Scenes of the Apple:
Hunger and Appetite as Metaphor in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Women’s Writing. Ed. Tamar Heller
and Patricia Moran. SUNY P, 2003.
167-79.
“Introduction.” Thomas Hardy's Far
from the Madding Crowd. Signet, 2002:
vii-xvi.
“Quaker Dress, Sexuality, and the
Domestication of Reform in the Victorian
Novel.” Victorian Literature
and Culture 30: 1 (2002): 211-36.
“The Risks of Enfranchisement:
Reading Hardy's Mixen Lane.” Norton Critical
Edition of Thomas Hardy’s The
Mayor of Casterbridge. Ed. Philip Mallett. NY:
Norton, 2000.
“The Condition of India: Hardyan and
Trollopian Realism in Rohinton Mistry and
Vikram Seth.” Days to
Recollect: Essays in Honour of Robert
Schweik. Ed. Rosemarie
Morgan. New Haven: The Hardy
Association Press, 2000: 31-40.
“Peter Ackroyd and Catholic England:
At Present, Living in the Past.” Catholic Writers Series. Commonweal (3 Nov. 2000):
14-19.
“Catching the Heart Off Guard: the
Generous Vision of Seamus Heaney.” Catholic Writers Series. Commonweal (17 May 1996): 10-14.
“Ironies and Inversions: The Art of
Anthony Burgess.” Commonweal (11 Feb. 1994):
9-12.
“Inescapable Responsibility.” Michael S. Harper Special Issue. Callaloo 13: 4 (Fall 1990):
815-816.
“Narrative Annexes in Charlotte
Bronte's Shirley.” Journal
of Narrative Technique 20: 2 (Spring
1990): 107-119.
Poetry
Poems in Agni,
An Anniversary Collection of the
Pawtucket Arts Council, The
Anthology of New England Writers, Ararat,
Chelsea, Clerestory, Colloquy,
The Graham House Review, New
and Selected: The Ohio Review Thirtieth
Anniversary 1971-2001, Notus: New
Writing, The Ohio Review, Quarterly
West, Standing on the Verge:
Emerging Poets and Artists (eds.
Joseph Lease and Thomas Sayre Ellis), and
Six Seasons Review (Bangladesh).
Work in Progress
Thomas Hardy's Brains
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