Assistant Chair, Associate Professor of
English
St. John's College of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island Campus, DaSilva Hall, Rm. 310
(718) 390-4416
fanuzzir@stjohns.edu
Office Hours, Spring 2006
Tuesday/Thursday: 10:00 - 10:30 A.M., 12:15 - 1:15 P.M.
Education
1993 Ph. D., English, Northwestern University, Dissertation Year
Fellow. Dissertation: 'Be Yourself': The Public Sphere and
Revolutionary Politics of the New England Abolition Movement.
directed by Michael Warner
1987 M. A., English, Northwestern University, Presidential
Fellow
1983 B. A., magna cum laude, College of William and Mary, majors in
English and Philosophy
Fellowships, Grants, Awards
2003 Person of Distinction Award, St. John's University Staten
Island Campus
2001 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, St. John's University
2000 Faculty Merit Award, St. John's University
1998 "Back to the Futures: An Institute in American Studies,"
Dartmouth Summer Humanities Institute.
1997 Faculty Merit Award, St. John's University
1995 "Institutes of Enlightenment: The Invention of the Public
Sphere," NEH Summer Institute at Stanford University, 1995
(alternate)
Books
Abolition's Public Sphere. University of Minnesota
Press, 2003.
The Antislavery Reader: American Abolition and the Atlantic
World. (under contract with Modern Library)
Essays and Articles
"Frederick Douglass's 'Colored Newspaper': Identity Politics in
Black and White." In The Black Press: New Historical and
Literary Essays. Ed. Todd Vogel (New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 2001).
"The Trouble with Douglass's Body." American Transcendental
Quarterly 13 (1999): 27-49.
"'The Organ of an Individual': William Lloyd Garrison and The
Liberator." Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural
Studies 23 (1998): 107-27
"Everybody's Faneuil Hall: The Imaginary Institution of
Democracy." Arizona Quarterly 54 (1998): 1-23.
"Thoreau's Urban Imagination." American Literature 68
(1996): 321-46.
"Empire of Tears." James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and
His Art 9 (1993): 37-51
Reviews
Book Review, Clotel, or the Daughter of a
President, edited by Robert S. Levine, Resources for
American Literary Study (forthcoming)
Conference Presentations
"Abolition." MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.
"Public Sex and Civic Culture: Race Riots in Marie."
ASA Convention, Hartford, October 2003.
"New World Dandies," MLA Convention, new York, December
2002.
"Antislavery and Social Pleasure: Civility in America, 2001
Annual Convention, American Studies Association, Washington D. C.
(also panel organizer)
"Frederick Douglass's 'Colored Newspaper': Identity Politics in
Black and White," Sept. 2000, Trinity College American Studies
Program and the Connecticut Historical Society (honorarium)
"The Traffic in Oratory: Frederick Douglass and the Limits of
Citizenship," 1999 Annual Convention, American Studies Conference,
Montreal, QB (also panel organizer)
"Pleasure, Pain, and the Aesthetic Sense: The Signs of
Antislavery," 1998 Dartmouth Institute of American Studies,
Hanover, NH
"Frederick Douglass's Liberator: Identity Politics in Black and
White," 1997 Annual Convention, Modern Language Association,
Toronto, ON
"'Female Excitement' and 'Foreign Scoundrels': Democracy by Any
Other Name, 1997 Annual Convention, American Studies Association,
Washington, DC (also panel organizer)
"Racial Amalgamation and Public Space," 1996 Annual Convention,
Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, Pittsburgh, PA
"Abolition: Sign of History," 1996 Annual Convention: Society
for the Study of Narrative Literature, Columbus OH
"Everybody's Faneuil Hall," 1995 Annual Convention, Northeast
Modern Language Association, Boston, MA
"Listening to Frederick Douglass: A Critique of Judgment," 1995
Annual Convention, Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, Dallas,
TX
"How to Sell a Person: Abolition and Authorship," 1994 Annual
Convention, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago IL
"Walden as City Planning," 1994 Annual Convention, California
American Studies Association, San Diego, CA
"Sentimental History: Cooper and Nationalism" 1993 Annual
Convention, Canadian Association of American Studies, Halifax,
NS
"Empire of Tears," 1993 Cooper Seminar, Oneonta, NY
"The Public Sphere Transformed: Garrison's Uncommon Sense," 1991
Annual Convention, California American Studies Associations, San
Jose, CA
Teaching Experience
St. John's University,
1993-present
American Literature, Colonial through Modernism
African-American Literature
Gender Studies and Women's Literature
Modern European Literature
Post-Colonial Literature
Adjunct Lecturer, City University of
New York, 1989-93
Humanities, Classics to Renaissance
Urban Fiction and Cultural Studies
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern
University, 1986-9
American Literature, Colonial through Realism
Contemporary World Fiction
Shakespearean Tragedy
Freshman Seminar in Humanities
Member
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
New England History Association
New York/Metro American Studies Association
Columbia University Seminar in American Studies