Susan Danielson Full Professor Neuberger Hall M405
503-725-3569 daniels@pdx.edu
B.A. University of Pittsburgh 1966
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1969
Ph.D. University of Oregon 1990 On the PSU faculty since 1974
COURSES:
Survey of American Literature; Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass;
Illness and Culture; The New Immigrant; Introduction to American Studies; Women's Words: Feminist
Theory; Recent Ethnic-American Literature; Domestic Strains: The Woman Question, FreeLove, and 19th Century Fiction;
The Immigrant Experience in American Film and Literature; American Naturalism; American Regionalism;
American Modernism and Nativism; Contemporary Women Writers; Captivity Narratives
FIELDS:
American Literature and Culture; Literature and Medicine; Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Sue Danielson received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1990 with specialties in Nineteenth Century American Literature and Women's Literature. Until her return to
graduate school in 1986 Danielson taught composition at Lehman College and Portland State with a particular focus on Developmental Writing for underprepared students. Over the
past decade she has developed two new areas of interest, Literature and Medicine, and Transnationalism. Her research projects focus on the ways in which literature reflects,
challenges, and projects social and cultural questions, from definitions of race and gender to immigration policy and the emergence of nativism and nation. Her published work
includes articles on Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, and Michael Ondaatje and incorporating non-canonical writers into the American Literature curriculum. She is currently working
on a collection of essays on the ways in which community-based learning can inform, enliven, and complicate literary studies. Danielson is known for her innovative courses and pedagogy.
ARTICLES
“Dr. Miller's Dilemma: Professionalism or Domestic Feminism in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition” in the Southern Literary Journal, 2007
