Susan Farrell - Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English - College of Charleston- Department of English

Susan Farrell , Professor

Areas of interest		Contact Information
- Contemporary American fiction - Women writers - Literature of the Vietnam War - Postmodernism/gender studies		Office: 26 Glebe Street #205 (843) 953-5785 farrells {at} cofc.edu
Personal website: www.cofc.edu/~farrells
Profile Susan Farrell earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. She came to the College of Charleston that same year, where she teaches courses in American literature, women's studies, and composition. Her current research focuses on the life and work of contemporary American writer Kurt Vonnegut.
Recent Publications, Presentations, and Conferences A Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Facts on File. Under Contract, Forthcoming, 2007. "Feminist Criticism and the Vietnam War Literature of Tim O‚Brien: Reactions and Accommodations." Hawaii Conference on the Vietnam War in Literature and Film, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2005. "Tim O'Brien and Gender: A Defense of The Things They Carried." The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 66.1 (Fall 2003): 1-21. Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide. Continuum Contemporaries Series. New York: Continuum, 2001.