Susan Z. Andrade
Associate Professor of English
412-624-6550
sza@pitt.edu
CL 628-L
Susan Z. Andrade is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is affiliated with the programs in Cultural Studies and Women’s Studies.
Her book on gender politics, public sphere politics, and women’s literary traditions, The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988, is forthcoming from Duke UP, and she co-edited Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001). She has published essays on Aphra Behn, Maryse Conde, and Franz Fanon, V. S. Naipaul, and literary and intellectual materials from Africa and the Caribbean in Callaloo, Cultural Critique, Research in African Literatures as well as several edited books. In October 2006 she brought to Pitt a dozen scholars of African literature working in Arabic, English, French and Portuguese for a 3 day conversation with the English department and others that participants agreed was highly stimulating; selected essays are published in a special double issue of the journal, NOVEL. With David Shumway of Carnegie Mellon University, she organized the Realisms Seminar in 2008-9. Her current research project focuses on realism and literary history in Africa.
"The Problem of Realism and African Fiction" forthcoming in 40th anniversary issue of NOVEL
Guest editor of double issue of NOVEL, The Form of Postcolonial African Fiction volume 41, numbers 2/3 Spring/Summer (2008). "Introduction" 189-199.
Death of a Discipline and African Literary Studies in Forum section devoted to work of Gayatri Spivak, PMLA 123.1 (2008): 239-41
“Writing Women, Rioting Women: Gender, Class and the Public Sphere in Africa”in Africa After Gender? Eds. Catherine Cole, et. al. Bloomington: Indiana UP (2007) 85-107.
Undergrad courses
- Intro to Critical Reading
- Junior Seminar (recently: Marxism and Literature)
- The Modernist Tradition
- Senior Seminar (recently: Virginia Woolf, postcolonial literature)
- World Literature in English
Graduate Courses
- Aesthetics and Politics
- African Narratives
- Feminist Theory
- The Global Novel
- Nationalism and Sexual Politics
- The Novel: Text and Theories
Service
- Personnel Committee
- Racial/Sexual Harassment Officer
- MLA Executive Division, Postcolonial Literature
