Susan Hegeman
Associate Professor
Susan Hegeman (AB, Harvard 1986; PhD in Literature, Duke 1992) taught at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the UF faculty in 1995. In 1996, she was the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Professor Hegeman’s teaching and research interests focus on American literature, art, history, and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on the theory and intellectual history of the idea of culture. Her published work (in collections and journals including American Literary History, American Quarterly, Common Knowledge, Genre, Public Culture, and Social Text) addresses modernist literature and culture, the history of American anthropology, and the study of mass and material culture. Her book, Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (Princeton, 1999), examines the joint modernist project of anthropologists and literary critics at the turn of the century to define and deploy the idea of “culture.” She is currently completing a book entitled The Cultural Return, which traces the history of the “cultural turn” of the 1980s and 1990s to offer an account of culture’s ascendancy as a central interdisciplinary concept and the reasons for its more recent failing fortunes. It argues for the term’s continued – indeed renewed – relevance in the context of globalization.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4119
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 289
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <shegeman@english.ufl.edu>