Susan Goodman is the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities. She specializes in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century America literature. Her books include Edith Wharton's Women: Friends and Rivals (University Press of New England, 1990), Edith Wharton's Inner Circle (University of Texas Press, 1994), Ellen Glasgow: A Biography (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998; 2003), Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940 (John Hopkins, 2003), and a forthcoming biography of William Dean Howells, coauthored with Carl Dawson and subtitled "A Writer's Life" (University of California Press, 2005). In addition to numerous articles, she has written the introduction for Ellen Glasgow's Civil War novel, The Battle-Ground ; and edited two collections of essays: Femmes de Conscience: Aspects du Feminisme Americain, 1 848-1875 (Sorbonne University Press, 1994), with Daniel Royot; and A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton (University of Delaware Press, 1999) with Clare Colquitt and Candace Waid. Her most recent project, co-written with Carl Dawson, is a biography of the western writer Mary Hunter Austin.
In 2002, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Biography. Other awards include the William Dean Howells Memorial Fellowship in American Literature, Houghton Library, Harvard University (2001); the Dorothy M. Healy Visiting Professorship, University of New England (Spring 2000); and a resident fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Humanities (Spring 1994). |
