Susan Tomlinson
Biography
Susan Tomlinson is the editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Oxford University Press Complete Works of Edith Wharton, for which she is editing the first scholarly edition of Wharton’s novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
Area of Expertise
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and African-American literature; literary history; gender and modernism.
Degrees
PhD, Brown University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- “Teaching Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun,” in Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies. Ed. Michael Soto. New York: Peter Lang, 2008: 115-21.
- “‘Curiously Without Body’: The Hidden Language of Zona Gale’s Faint Perfume,” in MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 52.3 (Fall 2006): 570-87.
- “‘An Unwonted Coquetry’: The Commercial Seductions of Jessie Fauset’s The Chinaberry Tree,” in Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, edited by Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003: 227-43.
- “Vision to Visionary: The New Negro Woman as Cultural Worker in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun,” in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19 (Winter 2002): 90-97.
Additional Information
Professor Tomlinson has published articles, book chapters, and reviews in Legacy, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; Resources for American Literary Study; Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s (ed. Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith); and Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies (ed. Timothy Soto); and The New Edith Wharton Studies (ed. Jennifer Haytock and Laura Rattray; Cambridge UP, forthcoming).