Susan Fischer

Professor emerita of Spanish and comparative literature

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Duke University

Teaching Interests

• Spanish Comedia and Shakespeare (see chapter in Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama, ed. Margaret Greer and Laura Bass, MLA, 2006)
• Early Modern Spanish Theatre
• Twentieth-Century Spanish Theatre (especially Lorca)
• Advanced Spanish Language through Literature and Film

Research Interests

• "Reading" modern productions of Spanish Golden Age Theatre and Shakespeare
• Homage Volume: Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia: Translation, Interpretation, Performance. Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer. Ed. Barbara Mujica (Bucknell University Press, 2013)

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Reading Performance: Spanish Golden Age Theatre and Shakespeare on the Modern Stage (Tamesis, 2009)

Self-Conscious Art: A Tribute to John W. Kronik (Editor, Bucknell University Press, 1996)

BOOK CHAPTERS / ARTICLES

"Jacques Vincey’s ‘Business in Venice’ in a French Supermarket: Shakespeare’s Merchant and Perceptions of ‘Anti-Semitism’.” Cahiers Elisabéthains, 95 (1) (2018).

“Romeo and Juliet in British Culture: In Fresh Performance by The Royal Shakespeare Company.” “Romeo and Juliet” in European Culture. Eds. Juan Francisco Cerdà, Kirk Delabastita, Keith Gregor. John Benjamins, 2017. 227-245.