Susannah
Crowder
Chair and Associate Professor
Phone number
212.237.8304
Room number
6.65.02 NB
Education

Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY (2008, History)

Certificate in Medieval Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2008)

M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY (2003, History)

B.A., Yale University (1997, Humanities)

Bio

Susannah Crowder is Chair and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College, CUNY, where she has teaching specialties in gender studies and experiential pedagogy.  She earned her doctorate in Medieval History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, during which time she was a Robert E. Gilleece fellow and received the Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History from the Medieval Academy of America.  She earned her B.A. from Yale University with a focus on medieval studies.  Professor Crowder has published numerous articles on topics relating to gender, space, and performance culture, and a prize-winning monograph entitled Performing Women:  Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz (2018).

JJC Affiliations
Gender Studies Program
Courses Taught
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Funded Original Seminars The Philosophy of Revenge:  Reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick Magic, Mirrors, and Memory in Latin America:  Slow Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez   ISP First-Year Common Experience Seminars Ways of Knowing:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on New York Justice:  Who’s In and Who’s Out? Writing New York   Original Seminars All in the Family:  The Family in History and Psychology Alternate Worlds Forbidden Love:  History and Theater Green Eggs and Zombies:  Literature By, For, and About Children Inventing History:  Making Culture From Past to Present Killing Children:  Children as Perpetrators and Victims Masculinity:  History and Psychology Revolutionaries Saint or Sinner?  Joan of Arc Sex, Gender, and Justice:  Space and Place Travel and Transformation Troublemakers and Music Vigilantes! Violence in the Pursuit of Justice When I Grow Up:  The Perils and Promises of Adolescence When Nature Roars:  Global Catastrophe and Human Responsibility You Are What You Eat:  Food and Culture   Research Seminar Chaos and Control   Internship Course For the Common Good:  Community and Service   Composition English 201:  Genre and Rhetoric:  Exploring Writing Across the Disciplines   Lectures History 231:  Origins of the Contemporary World:  World History, Part I
Scholarly Work

Monograph

Performing Women:  Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz, Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 2018.  ***Winner of the 2019 MRDS David Bevington Award for best new book in early drama studies***  

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Gendered Devotions:  Negotiating Body, Space, Object, and Text through Performance,” European Medieval Drama 21 (2017):  43-66.

“Performance in the Early Medieval West:  Cultural Practice and Expression of Identity in the Marriage of Sigibert I and Brunhild,” ROMARD (Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama) 50 (2011):  17-29.

“Gender and the Local Expression of Authority in Philippe de Vigneulles's Metz,” Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes 22 (2011):  181-91.  Special topic: “Crimes et délits, justice et règlement des conflits dans l’oeuvre de Philippe de Vigneulles,” eds. Catherine M. Jones and Bernard Ribémont.

“Children, Costume, and Identity in the Chester Midsummer Show” Early Theatre 10.1 (2007):  13-34.

Book Chapter

“Ivory and Parchment, Flesh and Stone:  Performance and the Activation of Sacred Space.”  In L’Eglise, lieu de performances:  In Locis competentibus, eds. Stéphanie-Diane Daussy and Nicolas Reveryron, 137-48.  Paris:  Éditions Picard, 2016.

Book Reviews

Charles Mazouer, Le théâtre français du Moyen Âge, 2nd ed., in French Studies 72.1 (2018): 101-2.

Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès et al., eds., Les péres du théâtre médiéval:  Examen critique de la constitution d’un savoir académique in Speculum 87.1 (2012):  184-5.

Mireille Chazan and Gérard Nauroy, eds., Écrire l’histoire à Metz au Moyen Âge in The Medieval Review, 5 November (2012).

D. Maddox and S. Sturm-Maddox, eds., Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century in The Medieval Review, 7 January (2010).

Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God:  Social Relations and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays and William Tydeman, ed., The Medieval European Stage, 500-1500 in Renaissance Quarterly 56.2 (2003):  546-8.

Honors and Awards
David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies, MRDS (2018) PSC-CUNY Research Award Program, Traditional A (2017-18) Publication Grant, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College (2017-18) Enhanced Travel Fund, Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College (2019) William Stewart Travel Award, CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences (2017-18) Departmental Travel Fund, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (2014-19) Faculty Student Engagement Fund, John Jay College (2014-15, 2017-19) Alexandra Johnston Award for Best New Conference Paper in Early Drama Studies by a Graduate Student, MRDS (2008) Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History, Medieval Academy of America (2006-07) Writing Fellowship, City University of New York (2003-05) Robert E. Gilleece Fellowship, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (1999-2003)