Bio

Susan Alice Fischer has taught at Medgar Evers College since 2001 and has developed many of the courses she teaches, including “From Windrush to Brexit and Beyond: ‘Race’ and Nation in Contemporary British Literature,” “Slavery, Emancipation, and Empire in British Literature,” and “Afro-European Literature and Culture Today.” Her research centers on 20th- and 21st-century British fiction, especially contemporary women’s urban novels and transnational literature. Her more recent research interests encompass diverse literary voices in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain and in contemporary Italy. Fischer has presented her research internationally, mostly in Europe, both as an invited speaker and as a conference participant. She has extensive editorial experience and is co-editor of the peer-reviewed Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Taylor & Francis). Publications include the edited volume Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic) and research on diverse authors and topics, including Black British women’s writing and literary institutions, ethics in contemporary women’s fiction, and London literature. Her book reviews have appeared in The Women’s Review of Books, The Literary London Journal, and elsewhere. Recent work includes a chapter on the novel The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox in Maggie O’Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic) and an essay on Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play Beneatha’s Place in Blacklines: The Journal of Black British Writing.