Susan David Bernstein
English, 6115 Helen C White
Office: 608-263-3804
sdbernst@wisc.edu
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2008 / 2009 - Susan David Bernstein’s (English) research and teaching focus is on Victorian literature and culture, nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, as well as feminist theory and women’s writing. In addition, she has taught a Jewish Studies course on representations of Jewishness and Englishness in Victorian culture and another on transatlantic Jewishness in novels set in London or New York . She has edited two novels of Amy Levy, first published in 1888: The Romance of a Shop (2006) and Reuben Sachs (2006). Her book Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture (1997) includes a chapter on George Eliot’s /Daniel Deronda/ where she discusses the novel’s use of Jewishness. She has also published essays on Jewish vulgarity in Victorian literature and on sympathetic identification and responses to Anne Frank’s diary.
