Susan Solomon

Susan L. Solomon has published articles on James Joyce’s Ulysses, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Claire Goll’s Die Frauen Erwachen, and the contemporary art of Doug Aitken. She co-translated Primitive Thinking: Figuring Alterity in German Modernity (2022) by Nicola Gess and Flaubert Postsecular: Crossed Out Modernity (2015) by Barbara Vincken from the German and co-edited the critical edition of Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country, 1918–1919 (2014) by American Red Cross volunteer Margaret Hall. Her present research and teaching explore formal and conceptual intersections across literature, architecture, visual art, and music.

Prior to coming to RISD, Solomon taught across the humanities curriculum in English, humanities, writing, comparative literature, and gender studies departments at the University of Connecticut, Brown University, Bogazici University (Istanbul), and Roger Williams University.