Faculty

Susan Zieger, Associate Professor
Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley

(951) 827-1926
susan.zieger@ucr.edu

Susan Zieger (B.A., Dartmouth College, MSc., London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) researches and teaches nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture with a special interest in popular forms such as the novel. Her book, Inventing the Addict: Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature, forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press, describes how metaphors of addiction such as exile, self-enslavement, and disease circulated through literature and culture to forge the new identity of the addict.

PUBLICATIONS

"The Dandy, the Soldier, and the Cigarette: Under Two Flags and the Late Victorian Culture of Smoking." Forthcoming in Nineteenth-Century Studies.

"Victorian Hallucinogens." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (February 2008). Special Issue #49: Interdisciplinarity and the Body at http://www.ron.umontreal.ca

"Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E.P. Roe's Without a Home" Forthcoming in American Literature 80:3 (September 2008), 527-554.

"Pioneering Inner Space: Drug Autobiography and U.S. Imperialism." PMLA 122: 5 (October 2007), 1531-47. Special issue, “Remapping Genre,” edited by Wai Chee Dimock and Bruce Robbins.

"Queering the Drug Diary: Go Ask Alice and its Victorian Genealogies.” Genre 39:1 (spring 2006), 89-114

" 'How Far Am I Responsible?': Women and Morphinomania in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain.” Victorian Studies 48:1 (Autumn 2005), 59-81.

“Sex and the Citizen in Sex in the City’s New York.” In Kim Akass and Janet McCabe (eds.), Reading Sex and the City. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004: 97-111.

"Disciplining Addiction." Review of Ed. Jane Lillienfeld and Jeffrey Oxford’s The Languages of Addiction, (St. Martin's Press, 1999). Journal of Medical Humanities, 22:4 (Winter 2001), pp. 318-321.

"Addiction in the Nineteenth Century." John van Wyhe (ed.), The Victorian Web, (summer 2002).

HONORS and AWARDS

American Council of Learned Societies, 2006-2007

Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Fall 2006

Faculty Research Development Award, UCR 2004-5

Huntington Library Fellowship, Summer 2005