Susannah Gottlieb

English Department Associate Chair
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. 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 work includes articles and essays in PMLA , Comparative Literature, diacritics, TEXT + KRITIK, and Harvard English Studies. Her current book project is entitled The Importance of Metaphysics: The Intellectual Heresies of W. H. Auden. A Whiting Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Chicago in 2000-01, her interests include modern British and American poetry, continental philosophy and political theory, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Asian American literary traditions.

Publications by Susannah Gottlieb

Regions of Sorrow Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden

Reflections on Literature and Culture Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (editor)

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