SUSAN K. HOWARD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

Office: College Hall 632B
Telephone: 412-396-6441
Email: howard@duq.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours:
TTH 10:00-12:00, 1:30-2:30; F 10:00-2:00

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A., University of Delaware
Ph.D., University of Delaware

Dr. Susan Howard teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the novel.  She has published on novelists of the long 18th century, including  Frances Burney, Charlotte Lennox, Henry Fielding, and Amelia Opie.  She also works in the field of Adoption Studies.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

“In the Public Eye: The Structuring of Spectacle in Frances Burney’s Evelina,” in “The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England.  Ed. Laura Engel.  Cambridge Scholars Publishers, forthcoming 2009.

“Transcultural Adoption in the Eighteenth-century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia.  Festshrift in honor of Jerry Beasley.  Ed. Christopher Johnson. University of Delaware Press, 2009.

“A Critical Edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley.”  Under contract with Broadview Press, due December 2008.

A Critical Edition of Charlotte Lennox’s “Euphemia.”  Broadview Press (Summer 2008).

A Critical Edition of Maria Edgeworth’s “Castle Rackrent.”  Hackett Publishing, 2007.

"Seeing Colonial America and Writing Home About It: Charlotte Lennox's Euphomia, Epistolaris, and the Feminine Picturesque." Studies in the Novel. Forthcoming Winter 2005.

A Critical Edition of Ed Burney's Evelina. Broadview Press, 2000.

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