Susan S Lanser
Biographic Data
| ID | 529835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan S Lanser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanser |
| SIGNATURE | LANSER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9384-4147 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transforming Asecs: The Difference a Caucus Can Make
At fifty the longest-lived of the ASECS caucuses, the Women's Caucus has continued to change both the field and ASECS itself. This brief commentary looks at the ways in which the work of the Caucus has changed over the past quarter century and in particular at the ways in which the Society itself has been influenced by the Caucus in leadership, culture, and values. The essay also asks what new directions the Caucus might emphasize, especially in …
Novel/nation: Counter-narrative fiction, Israel-Palestine, and the politics of form
Under what conditions can works of fiction serve counter-narrative aims? If the reified claims of a national narrative purport to be grounded in fact, can they be successfully challenged or dismantled by works of admittedly imaginative status? This essay singles out five strategies that occur with particular frequency in novels and stories that manifestly push back against a national Israeli narrative: multiple and variable focalization, analepsi…
Same/Difference? Toward a Sapphic/Nonbinary Sexuality of History
What is the next step when one has published a strong intervention in a field but later recognizes that one's angle of vision deserves new scrutiny? In this article, which began as a roundtable talk, I return to The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 (2014) to interrogate its "same-sex" logic through a nonbinary/trans lens. My book argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century representations of the sapphic became a flas…
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry
As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a "postclassical chronotope" within the framework of a situated narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters' movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gen…
Queering narrative voice
Narrative theory has paid less attention to queer possibilities than narrative itself warrants. This essay takes up the specific subject of narrative voice and asks how it might be ‘queered’ by considering three distinct meanings of the verb ‘to queer’. Seeking as well to establish compatibility between feminist and queer understandings of voice, I explore ways in which both homodiegtetic (first-person) and heterodiegetic (third-person) narrative…
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
Au sein de vos pareilles: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France
Writing Women into Romanticism
Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America
Susan S. Lanser, Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 415-441
Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot
The Feminist Voice: Strategies of Coding in Folklore and Literature
Essai de typologie du codage des activites traditionnelles et de la litterature feminines (Etats-Unis), c'est-a-dire des strategies de dissimulation que les femmes utilisent pour faire passer un message feministe dans une societe ideologiquement androcentrique qui le rejette
Problems in the Theory of Fiction
The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction
Speaking in Tongues: "Ladies Almanack" and the Language of Celebration
What does it mean for lesbians to laugh, to rejoice, to celebrate? When the celebration is textual (public and verbal), what linguistic/aesthetic forms permit this profoundly radical act? What do patterns of humor and celebration, and the relationship between the two, tell us about the community? How has celebration changed during the past fifty years; do the artifacts of our foremothers nurture us or simply confuse? Is the humor of an alternativ…
The Problem of Reflection
The College de Sociologie: Paradox of an Active Sociology
Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America
Susan S. Lanser, Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 415-441
The Feminist Voice: Strategies of Coding in Folklore and Literature
Essai de typologie du codage des activites traditionnelles et de la litterature feminines (Etats-Unis), c'est-a-dire des strategies de dissimulation que les femmes utilisent pour faire passer un message feministe dans une societe ideologiquement androcentrique qui le rejette
Queering narrative voice
Narrative theory has paid less attention to queer possibilities than narrative itself warrants. This essay takes up the specific subject of narrative voice and asks how it might be ‘queered’ by considering three distinct meanings of the verb ‘to queer’. Seeking as well to establish compatibility between feminist and queer understandings of voice, I explore ways in which both homodiegtetic (first-person) and heterodiegetic (third-person) narrative…
Same/Difference? Toward a Sapphic/Nonbinary Sexuality of History
What is the next step when one has published a strong intervention in a field but later recognizes that one's angle of vision deserves new scrutiny? In this article, which began as a roundtable talk, I return to The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 (2014) to interrogate its "same-sex" logic through a nonbinary/trans lens. My book argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century representations of the sapphic became a flas…
Speaking in Tongues: "Ladies Almanack" and the Language of Celebration
What does it mean for lesbians to laugh, to rejoice, to celebrate? When the celebration is textual (public and verbal), what linguistic/aesthetic forms permit this profoundly radical act? What do patterns of humor and celebration, and the relationship between the two, tell us about the community? How has celebration changed during the past fifty years; do the artifacts of our foremothers nurture us or simply confuse? Is the humor of an alternativ…
The Problem of Reflection
The College de Sociologie: Paradox of an Active Sociology
The Problem of Reflection
Speaking in Tongues: "Ladies Almanack" and the Language of Celebration
What does it mean for lesbians to laugh, to rejoice, to celebrate? When the celebration is textual (public and verbal), what linguistic/aesthetic forms permit this profoundly radical act? What do patterns of humor and celebration, and the relationship between the two, tell us about the community? How has celebration changed during the past fifty years; do the artifacts of our foremothers nurture us or simply confuse? Is the humor of an alternativ…
The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction
Problems in the Theory of Fiction
Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot
The Feminist Voice: Strategies of Coding in Folklore and Literature
Essai de typologie du codage des activites traditionnelles et de la litterature feminines (Etats-Unis), c'est-a-dire des strategies de dissimulation que les femmes utilisent pour faire passer un message feministe dans une societe ideologiquement androcentrique qui le rejette
Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America
Susan S. Lanser, Feminist Criticism, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the Politics of Color in America, Feminist Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, Feminist Reinterpretations/Reinterpretations of Feminism (Autumn, 1989), pp. 415-441
Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Writing Women into Romanticism
Au sein de vos pareilles: Sapphic Separatism in Late Eighteenth-Century France
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
Queering narrative voice
Narrative theory has paid less attention to queer possibilities than narrative itself warrants. This essay takes up the specific subject of narrative voice and asks how it might be ‘queered’ by considering three distinct meanings of the verb ‘to queer’. Seeking as well to establish compatibility between feminist and queer understandings of voice, I explore ways in which both homodiegtetic (first-person) and heterodiegetic (third-person) narrative…
The Postclassical Chronotope: A Narratological Inquiry
As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a "postclassical chronotope" within the framework of a situated narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters' movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gen…
Same/Difference? Toward a Sapphic/Nonbinary Sexuality of History
What is the next step when one has published a strong intervention in a field but later recognizes that one's angle of vision deserves new scrutiny? In this article, which began as a roundtable talk, I return to The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 (2014) to interrogate its "same-sex" logic through a nonbinary/trans lens. My book argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century representations of the sapphic became a flas…
Novel/nation: Counter-narrative fiction, Israel-Palestine, and the politics of form
Under what conditions can works of fiction serve counter-narrative aims? If the reified claims of a national narrative purport to be grounded in fact, can they be successfully challenged or dismantled by works of admittedly imaginative status? This essay singles out five strategies that occur with particular frequency in novels and stories that manifestly push back against a national Israeli narrative: multiple and variable focalization, analepsi…
Transforming Asecs: The Difference a Caucus Can Make
At fifty the longest-lived of the ASECS caucuses, the Women's Caucus has continued to change both the field and ASECS itself. This brief commentary looks at the ways in which the work of the Caucus has changed over the past quarter century and in particular at the ways in which the Society itself has been influenced by the Caucus in leadership, culture, and values. The essay also asks what new directions the Caucus might emphasize, especially in …
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