Fall 2007 Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30 - 3 PM; Friday 1:30 - 2:30 PM; and by appointment
Dr. Eric Susser joined Barrett in 1997. He earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Susser’s doctoral scholarship focuses on 19th and 20th century intellectual thought, primarily aestheticism and the transitional moments between the Victorian and Modern periods. He has developed two courses on the “decadent” movement, which he teaches in Paris during the summer semester. Dr. Susser is also interested in how scientific discourse has shaped our understanding of ourselves as human beings, a question explored in his course “Science and the Modern Self.”
More recently Dr. Susser has turned his attention to the creative arts, working in the genres of short story and prose poetry and exploring the links between written and visual languages. He collaborates with local artist John Nelson (
http://whonelson.com/books.aspx?pt=home), with whom he has written several artist’s books featured in galleries in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Seattle, Santa Fe and New Orleans. Their most recent work, Short Lived, was shown at Bentley Projects in downtown Phoenix in April 2007. In his “The Artist’s Self” honors seminar, which takes advantage of Dr. Susser’s many connections to the local arts community, students link contemporary art movements to a variety of work by local artists and then produce a final project that has both critical and creative components.
Dr. Susser currently serves the Barrett community as the College Ombudsperson, the Gammage Scholars Mentor, and a member of numerous college committees. He is the 2007 recipient of the ASU Alumni Association’s Founders’ Day Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching.
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