Participant Info
- First Name
- Susan
- Last Name
- Amussen
- Country
- (Country)
- State
- CA California
- Samussen@ucmerced.edu
- Affiliation
- University of California, Merced
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Early Modern England, Atlantic World, Gender, theater, class
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a social and cultural historian of England and its Atlantic colonies with a focus on the late sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries. I am particularly interested in the various categories into which people were placed — by class and status, gender, and eventually race.
I am currently particularly interested in the history of patriarchy — how it changes over time while maintaining women’s subordination.
In addition, I have a longstanding interest in the ways in the historical contexts of theater, and the ways early modern drama can shed light on ideas about gender, class and race.
- Recent Publications
Books:
Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700. Chapel Hill and New York, 2007.
(with David Underdown), Gender, Culture and Politics in Early Modern England: Turning the World Upside Down. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Articles:
“Cuckold’s Haven: Gender and Inversion in Popular Culture,” in The Oxford Companion to the Age of Shakespeare, ed. Malcolm Smuts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 528-42.
“The Contradictions of Patriarchy in Early Modern England”, in “Early Modern Patriarchy: A Forum”, forthcoming in Gender and History
“Elizabeth Goudge (1900-1984): Clergymen and Masculinity”, in Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James, edited by Alison Shell and Judith Maltby, which will be published by Bloomsbury T&T Clark in 2019.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @susandamussen
- Country Focus
- UK
- Expertise by Geography
- England
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
