Charlotte Sussman

Charlotte Sussman Wins Richard K. Lublin Teaching Award

Charlotte Sussman

The Duke English Department is excited to announce that Professor Charlotte Sussman is one of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Awards in Undergraduate Teaching, Leadership, and Diversity honorees. These awards are presented annually in partnership with the Arts & Sciences Council.  You can learn more about the recipients, past and present here. There are congratulatory videos from the Arts & Sciences Council's Undergraduate Teaching, Academic Standards, and Honors Committee for the four named teaching award winners.

Professor Sussman is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Richard K. Lublin Teaching Award.  "This Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award is one of four that recognizes truly outstanding teaching in the College. Recipients are selected on the basis of their ability to encourage intellectual excitement and curiosity in students, knowledge of a field and ability to communicate it, organizational skills, mentorship of students, and commitment to excellent teaching over time," Department Chair Robert Mitchell.

From colleagues: "As further evidence of the vitality of Professor Sussman's teaching method, one of the students in the most recent section of the 'Doctor's Stories' class was so excited by that course that she went on to develop a spring 2019 House Course on 'Human Experimentation in Medicine and Literature,' which Professor Sussman sponsored. It is difficult to imagine a more compelling testimony to the success of this class and Professor Sussman's teaching".

"Charlotte's skill as a teacher goes well beyond the walls and hours of class-time. I find her an inspiring model and collaborator, and have enjoyed working with her and the other colleagues in the lab to see our undergraduates flourish."

Prof. Sussman currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies.   University of Pennsylvania Press released her most recent literary work earlier in 2020, Peopling the World Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus.  Professor Sussman also authored Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713-1833, and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1660-1789.