 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Denison 148 Telephone: 303-492-5453 E-mail: Sue.Zemka@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
History and theory of the novel; Victorian literature and culture; 19th-century intellectual history; time studies
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989
B.A., Saint Louis University, 1980
Publications
Book
Victorian Testaments: The Bible, Christology, and Literary Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Stanford Univ. Press, 1998
Journal issue edited
Ed., "Time and the Arts." Special issue of English Language Notes 46.1 (Spring/Summer 2008)
Essays
"The Death of Nancy 'Sykes,'" Representations, forthcoming.
"Brief Encounters: Street Scenes in Gaskell's Manchester." ELH 76:3 (Fall 2009): 793-819.
"Stop-Loss: Extending Time in the Arts," Editor's Introduction to English Language Notes special issue, "Time and the Arts," English Language Notes 46.1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 1-7.
Interview with filmmaker Phil Solomon, English Language Notes 46.1 (Spring/Summer 2008): 124-32.
"Chronometrics of Money and Love in Great Expectations." Dickens Studies Annual 35 (Summer 2005): 133-45
"Erewhon and the End of Utopian Humanism." ELH 69 (2002): 439-72
"Thomas Arnold and Spiritual Authority." Victorian Studies 32:3 (Spring 1995): 429-62
"From the Punchmen to Pugin's Gothics: the Broad Road to a Sentimental Death in The Old Curiosity Shop." Nineteenth-Century Literature 48 (1993): 291-309
"The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society." The Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature. Ed. Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo. Duke Univ. Press, 1991; rpt., 1994
Selected honors and awards
Center for Humanities and the Arts Faculty Fellow, CU Boulder, 2007-2008
American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 2004
Woodrow Wilson Innovation Award, 2000
Mortar Board Teaching Award, CU Boulder, 1995
Elizabeth Wiegers Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1994
Current projects
Novel Time: The Moment in Victorian Literature and Society (book) . The subject of this work-in-progress is the relationships among changing technologies of time-keeping in the nineteenth century, the social awareness of time, and developments in the novel form.
"Spools of Time: The Seamstress and the Novel" (article)
"Hands, Handwriting, and Handkerchiefs: Tracking the Human Touch in Bleak House"
“The Industrial Reader” (article)