Dr. Susannah Gottlieb

Biography

Susannah Gottlieb holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches in the Department of English at Northwestern University, where her areas of focus include 20th-century literature, modern and contemporary poetry, and poetics. Her research interests encompass continental philosophy, political theory, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Asian American literary traditions. Gottlieb is the author of significant works such as 'Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden' and 'Auden and the Muse of History.' She is the founding editor of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Series at Northwestern University Press and her recent book project is titled 'Constraining Voices: Arendt, Speech, Silence.' She has delivered lectures at prestigious institutions including Princeton University, the New School for Social Research, and Brown University. Her scholarship explores complex intersections of literature, philosophy, and cultural criticism.

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