Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

English Department Associate Chair
Director, Poetry and Poetics Colloquium & Workshop
Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature

University Hall Room 321
Telephone: (847) 491-3091
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: s-gottlieb@northwestern.edu

Susannah Gottlieb (B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. University of Chicago) teaches in the areas of twentieth-century literature and thought.  Her interests include modern British and American poetry and poetics, continental philosophy and political theory, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Asian American literary traditions.  She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford University Press, 2003) and the editor of Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2007). Some of her other recent articles and essays include "Two Versions of Voltaire:  W. H. Auden and the Dialectic of Enlightenment" (PMLA);  "'Reflection on the Right to Will’:  Auden’s ‘Canzone’ and Arendt’s Notes on Willing” (Comparative Literature);  “‘Seit jener Zeit’:  Hannah Arendt und ihre Literaturkritik” (TEXT + KRITIK);  “‘With Conscious Artifice:  Auden’s Defense of Marriage” (Diacritics); “‘Everyone Is Welcome’:  Arendt and the Spirit of Non-pomposity” (GFPJ);  “Beyond Tragedy:  Arendt, Rogat, and the Judges in Jerusalem” (College Literature);  “Reflections on Ruin” (New Formations);  “Homing Pidgins: Another Version of Pastoral" (Babel in America, Harvard UP);  and “Auden on History” (Auden in Context, Cambridge UP).  Her current book project is entitled The Importance of Metaphysics: The Intellectual Heresies of W. H. Auden.

Publications by Susannah Gottlieb

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