Henry Sussman Explained

Henry Sussman (born 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American literary scholar who was a visiting professor of German at Yale University. His research interests focus on European-American 19th and 20th-century comparative literary studies, contemporary system theories, and critical theory.^[1] He is the author of several books, including The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (1997).^[2]

Life and career

Before completing a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University, Sussman studied English and American literature at Brandeis University. Sussman earned his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in comparative literature in 1975. Sussman was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), where he served as the department chair and Associate Dean of Arts & Letters. Since 2002, he has been a visiting professor at Yale University until his retirement in 2017.^[3]

In 2015, Susmann was the Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting professor of German at Rutgers University.^[4] He has held fellowships at the Center for Excellence Morphomata (University of Cologne) (2010-2011), the NEH Humanities (2001-2002), and the Rockefeller Foundation (1985-1986). He was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the Hebrew University for his work the Aesthetic Contract (1994). Since 1988, he has been part of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.^[5]

Selected works

• Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition (London & New York: Bloomsbury, 2014).
• Around the Book: Systems and Literacy (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011).
• Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). [Essays on the Zohar, Nietzsche, Joyce, Benjamin, Kafka, Schulz, Faulkner, Baldwin].
• The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, and Religion (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).
• The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
• Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993).
• Kafka's Unholy Trinity: The Trial, Twayne's Masterworks Series (New York: Macmillan, 1993). Afterimages of
• Modernity: Structure and Indifference in Twentieth-Century Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
• High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
• The Hegelian Aftermath: Essays on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Proust, and James (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).
• Franz Kafka: Geometrician of Metaphor (Madison: Coda Press, Inc., 1979).

External links

• Henry Sussman at Yale Department of German language and literature

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fellows . University of Cologne: Internationales Kolleg Morphomata . September 3, 2022.
2. Book: The Aesthetic Contract Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity . 1997 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-2842-3 . September 3, 2022.
3. Web site: Henry Sussman Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor Spring 2015 . Rutgers Department of German . September 3, 2022.
4. Web site: Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor . Rutgers: School of Arts and Sciences . September 3, 2022.
5. Web site: Department of German Languages and Literature: People . Yale University . September 3, 2022.