Suzanne Bost

	Title:	Associate Professor
	E-mail:	sbost@luc.edu

Personal Information

Education:
B.A. (Honors English and Spanish) University of Texas at Austin in 1992; Ph.D. (English) Vanderbilt University in 1997
19th and 20th century American literature; Latina/o Studies; Feminist Theory; Cultural Studies

Recent Publications:
“Illness and Healing in Latino/a Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Eds.
            Suzanne Bost and Frances Aparicio. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming in 2012.

“Ex-centric Subjects: Motherhood and/as Disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga.” Disability
            and Mothering. Eds. Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jan Cellio. Syracuse: Syracuse University
            Press, 2011.

“Hurting to Change the World: My Grandmother, Faith, and Gloria Anzaldúa.” Bridging: How and
            Why Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own. Eds. Gloria
            González-López and AnaLouise Keating. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

"Team-Teaching Transnationalism: Comparison and Difference in the Americas. " Co-authored with
Elizabeth Russ.  Brujula 7 (Fall 2008).   

"From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana
Feminism." Material Feminisms.  Eds. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman.  Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2007.    

"Gloria Anzaldua's Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics." 
Aztlan 30.2 (Fall 2005): 5-31.

Books:
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, co-edited with Frances Aparicio (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, forthcoming in September 2012)

Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature (Fordham University Press, 2009)

Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 (University of Georgia Press, 2003)

Teaching Philosophy:
Teaching can and should be transformative for all involved.  I believe that learning is reciprocal between professor and student, and I encourage students to question my perspective as well as the parameters of what we are studying.  I insist upon active thinking, thoughtful questioning, and constant reviewing of what we thought we already knew.  Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary comparison help us to think beyond familiar boundaries and unmoor the intellectual status quo.  I seek, in particular, to open students' eyes to material that is often marginalized in university curricula.

Offices Held:
Graduate Program Director for Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies Representative to the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly