Susan David Bernstein 

Professor, English and Women's Studies
608-263-3804
sdbernst@wisc.edu
www.wisc.edu/english/sdb/

Degrees and Institutions

PhD, Brandeis University, 1990

Research Interests

Victorian literary studies, gender studies and feminist theory, Jewish literature and culture, science and literature, spatial theories and London studies, Victorian print culture.

Selected Publications

Editions of Amy Levy, The Romance of a Shop (Broadview Press, 2006) and Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs (Broadview Press, 2006); Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997); “Radical Readers at the British Museum: Eleanor Marx, Clementina Black, Amy Levy,” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 3.2 (Summer 2007).

“Periodical Partners: A Context for Teaching Victorian Literature and Science,”Victorian Periodicals Review 39.4 (winter 2006): 383-97. “‘Designs After Nature’: Evolutionary Fashions, Animals, and Gender,” Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in NIneteenth-Century Literature and Culture, eds. Deborah Deneholz Morse and Martin Danahay. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2007. "Ape Anxiety: Sensation Fiction, Evolution, and the Genre Question," Journal of Victorian Culture, 6.2 (Fall 2001): 250‑270; "Promiscuous Reading: the Problem of Identification and Anne Frank's Diary," in Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002).

Current Projects

Victorian Vulgarity: Taste in Verbal and Visual Culture, co-edited with Elsie Michie (Ashgate, 2009); "Roomscapes: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf" (book in progress); "Sex at Six" (creative nonfiction on gender and sexuality); essay on transtatlantic Jewish women writers.