Susan B Iwanisziw
124 Edgewater Drive
Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328-4006
United States
570 828-8903
siwanisziw@netzero.com
Curriculum Vitae:
Disciplines:
English Literature and History: 16th to 18th centuries
American History: 17th to 19th centuries
Current Research Areas:
Lenape Culture
American Frontier
Slavery and Concubinage
Recent Scholarly Activity:
I have been fairly consistently engaged in research at the intersection of drama and fiction with history. My particular focus has been the transatlantic arena and topics ranging from slavery to Irish nationalism.
I am currently interested in north American frontier history and the alienation of the Native American tribal peoples as well as worldwide slavery today.
Recent Publications:
2006: Editor. Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Ashgate Publishing.
2004: Editor. Troping Oroonoko from Behn to Bandele. Ashgate Publishing.
2009: "Tortured Bodies, Factionalism, and Unsettled Loyalties in Settle's Morocco Plays." Staging Pain, 1580-1800. Ashgate Publishing. Eds. James Robert Allard and mathew R. Martin.
2008: "Hugh O'Neill and Early Modern Irish Nationalism." Anglo-Irish Identity 91600-1800. Bucknell University Press. Eds. David Valone and Jill Bradbury.
2007: "Slave Concubines and the Labor of Assimilation." Topic: The Washington and Jefferson College Review. 55.
2007: "Intermarriage in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Literature." Eighteenth-Century Life. 31.2.
2007: "Everyday Africans." Performing the Everyday: The Culture of Genre in the 18th Century. University Press of Delaware. Ed. Alden Cavanaugh.
2004: "England, Morocco and Global Geo-Political Upheaval." Envisioning an English Empire. University of Pennsylvania Press. Eds. John Wood Sweet and Robert Appelbaum.
200l: "The Shameful Allure of Sycorax and Wowski: Dramatic Prototypes of Sartje, the Hottentot Venus." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. 16.2.
1998 and 2009: "Conscience and the Disobedient Consort in the Closet Dramas of John Milton and Elizabeth Cary." Milton Studies. 36. Reprinted in Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 1550-1700 (2009).
2004-2008: Numerous reference articles for The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment 2nd ed.; The Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition; The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion; The African American National Biography; The Colonial World and the Young Nation, African-American History Reference Series.
1998-2008: Numerous book reviews for Eighteenth-Century Life; Seventeenth-Century News; ECCB; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research; The Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature; The Scriblerian.
Other Activities:
Concluding a multicultural historical novel set on the late 18th-century Pennsylvania frontier and on the early 19th-century Indiana Territory frontier of the White River. Also writing a fantasy thriller about a world much like our own ....
Currently vice president of NCIS.
Participant in the WCAA fiction writing group and the Jonathan Maberry fiction writing group.
Presented a paper at the MLA in Philadelphia on December 28, 2009: "Ousting 'Undesirables' from Philadelphia: The Rhetoric and Law Driving Antebellum Purges of Native American and African American Residents."
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