Susan Alice Fischer

Faculty Fellow

Susan Alice Fischer is Professor of English at Medgar Evers College. She received her first degree in Italy and her PhD from the University of London. She is Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Routledge) and the Book Reviews Editor for the online journal Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London. She writes about contemporary women’s London narratives and British national identity in contemporary literature and culture. Recent essays and reviews appear in The Women’s Review of Books, Critical Engagements, Zadie Smith: Critical Essays, Literature and Ethics: From the Green Knight to the Dark Knight, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fictionand elsewhere, and in the upcoming Reassessing the Contemporary Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith.

Participating Years

2011–2012

How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture

In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?