Rate My Professor Susan Bernstein

Her major publications include the monographs Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt and Baudelaire (Stanford University Press, 1998), Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2008), and The Other Synaesthesia (State University of New York Press, 2023), as well as the co-edited and translated volume On Goethe by Walter Benjamin (Stanford University Press, 2024). She has published articles in journals including MLN, differences, Novel, and October on authors and thinkers such as Nietzsche, Kant, Heine, Shelley, Derrida, and Heidegger. Bernstein's career features visiting appointments as Professor at New York University (2003) and Technische Universität Berlin (2005), Visiting Scholar at Université de Paris Est-Créteil (2012) and the American Academy in Rome (2000). At Brown, she chaired the Department of Comparative Literature (2008–2011 and 2021–2023), served as Director of Graduate Studies for German Studies (2018–2020), and held roles on promotion, search, and graduate committees. Awards include Pembroke Center Faculty Fellow (2019–2020 and 2014–2015), Cogut Center Faculty Fellow (2017), John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities (2013), Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (2005), and Salomon Research Award (1998).