Dr. Susan Bernstein

Biography

Susan Bernstein works in German, French, English, and American literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, with particular interests in literary theory, the arts (specifically music and architecture), Romanticism, philosophy, and poetry. She received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and has published extensively on figures like Nietzsche, Kant, Heine, and Shelley. Her notable works include 'Virtuosity in the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language' (Stanford University Press, 1998), 'Housing Problems: Writing Architecture' (Stanford University Press, 2008), and 'Synaesthesia' (SUNY Press, 2023). With more than three decades of teaching experience at Brown University, Bernstein's research spans aspects of Western aesthetics, lyric poetry, and the Bildungsroman tradition. She has held several prestigious grants and awards, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and multiple fellowships at Brown.

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