Susan Stanford Friedman

Susan Stanford Friedman is a Hilldale Professor of the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has published extensively in modernist studies, feminist studies, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, contemporary world literature, and migration/diaspora studies. She is the author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time , Mappings:...See more

Susan Stanford Friedman is a Hilldale Professor of the Humanities and the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has published extensively in modernist studies, feminist studies, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, contemporary world literature, and migration/diaspora studies. She is the author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time , Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter , and Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, and H.D.'s Fiction. She served as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (1990) and the Modernist Studies Association (2012). See less