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Susan Jardine

Teaching Assistant



Office: RH 311
Phone: 753-5599
Email: sjardine@niu.edu

Educational Background


M.A. Northern Illinois University; 2006

J.D. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; 1985

B.S. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; 1982


Professional Interests


American Immigrant Literature

Ethnic Literature

Women's Literature
Selected Publications >

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Selected Publications

  • "Mermaids and Meatloaf: Healing Hybrids in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent." The Seventh Annual MadLit. University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Student Conference on Language and Literature. February 2011. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • The History of the Young Men by Patrick Branwell Bronte. Edited with William Baker and others. Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2010.
  • "Trading Places: The Reversal of Racial Positions in Richard Wright's 'Big Black Good Man.'" Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association and Annual Conference, October 2010. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • “’Crippled, Unloved, and Doomed by the Scourge of History’: T. C. Boyle’s World’s End as a Modern American Male Gothic.” The Fifth Annual MadLit. University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Student Conference on Language and Literature. February 2009. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Arnold B. Fox Award for Graduate Research Writing, Honorable Mention, April 2009. "Wrestling with God: Emily Dickinson's Interrogation of the Bible."
  • Arnold B. Fox Award for Graduate Research Writing, November 2007. "'I am Stronger in Nature': The Natural Power of Linda Hogan's Power."

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2012ENGL 105.G05 (details)
TTH / 3:30 - 4:45 / RH302