Rate My Professor Suzanne Daly

Suzanne Daly serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her academic background includes a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania obtained in 1993, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1995, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004. Professor Daly's research specializations and academic interests lie in Victorian literature and culture, literary theory, and the history of the British empire, with particular emphasis on the novel form. She is affiliated with areas such as Colonial, Postcolonial, and Transnational Studies; 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Marxist Literary Studies; and Theory and Cultural Studies. In her role, she contributes to undergraduate education through courses like English 358: The Romantic Poets and mentors students in honors theses and individually created specializations, such as 19th Century British Literature.

A major publication is her book, The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels, released by University of Michigan Press in November 2010. Key articles include “Introduction: Cooking Culture,” co-written with Ross Forman, published in Victorian Literature and Culture volume 36, issue 2 in 2008; "Spinning Cotton: Domestic and Industrial Novels" in Victorian Studies volume 50, issue 2, also 2008; “Indiscreet Jewels: The Eustace Diamonds” in Nineteenth Century Studies volume 19 in 2005. Forthcoming is “The Clerk’s Tale: Characterizing the Middle in Dombey and Son,” appearing in the edited volume Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mario Ortiz-Robles and Caroline Levine, from Ohio State University Press. Furthermore, she co-edited the special issue Food and Drink in the Nineteenth Century with Ross Forman for Victorian Literature and Culture 36.2 (2008). For teaching excellence, she was awarded the Lilly Fellowship at UMass Amherst.