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| Susan Fraiman | |
|---|---|
| Name | Susan Fraiman |
| Occupation | Literary critic, scholar, professor |
| Nationality | American |
Susan Fraiman is an American literary critic and scholar specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, gender studies, and Jewish studies. She has held academic positions at major universities and edited influential collections on feminism, modernism, and Jewish identity. Her work engages with a wide range of authors and cultural institutions across North America and Europe.
Fraiman was born and raised in the United States and completed undergraduate studies before pursuing graduate training in comparative literature and English. She obtained advanced degrees at institutions with connections to scholars affiliated with Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, and University of Chicago. Her doctoral research drew on archives and manuscript collections associated with British Library, Library of Congress, Bodleian Library, and libraries at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and King's College London. During her formative years she studied under mentors who had ties to New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Cornell University, and Johns Hopkins University.
Fraiman began her teaching career at research universities connected to networks including University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, Northwestern University, and Duke University. She later joined faculty at institutions such as Smith College, where she developed courses that intersected literatures with intellectual histories associated with Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce. Her departmental service placed her in conversation with programs at Radcliffe Institute, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, Wellesley College, and Haverford College. Fraiman has held visiting appointments or given lectures at venues including Oxford University Press events, Cambridge University Press seminars, and conferences sponsored by Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, and American Studies Association.
Fraiman is author and editor of books and essays examining topics that engage figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. Her edited collections bring together scholarship referencing Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, bell hooks, and Susan Sontag. She has contributed chapters and reviews to journals and volumes connected with PMLA, Critical Inquiry, Signs, ELH, and Modern Fiction Studies. Her editorial projects have intersected with series published by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and University of Chicago Press. Her essays often dialogue with theorists including Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Fraiman's research addresses intersections of gender, sexuality, and Jewishness in modern and contemporary literature, drawing on methodologies influenced by scholars like Elaine Showalter, Wayne Booth, Northrop Frye, Helen Vendler, and Harold Bloom. She examines literary modernism alongside movements associated with Zionism, Yiddishism, Harlem Renaissance, Second Wave feminism, and postcolonialism. Her work engages canonical texts alongside writers such as Franz Kafka, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Ruth R. Wisse, as well as poets like Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden, and Walt Whitman. Methodologically, she deploys approaches from critics and theorists including Seyla Benhabib, Nancy Fraser, Carol Gilligan, Rosalind C. Morris, and Gayatri Spivak. Her scholarship has contributed to debates involving institutions like Museum of Modern Art, British Museum, New York Public Library, Jewish Theological Seminary, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Fraiman's work has been recognized by prizes and fellowships associated with organizations such as National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Program, and Rockefeller Foundation. She has received grants and awards linked to MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Humanities Center, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her essays and books have been shortlisted or honored by committees from Modern Language Association, American Philosophical Society, Association of American Publishers, British Academy, and Royal Society of Literature.
Fraiman resides in the United States and participates in cultural and intellectual communities connected to institutions such as American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, American Jewish Committee, Hadassah, and American Jewish Historical Society. She has collaborated with colleagues at centers including Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford Humanities Center, and Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.