Henry S Sussman

Henry Sussman was educated at Brandeis University (B.A.) and the Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.), where he studied English and comparative literature. In addition, he spent several years studying in Paris and Berlin. Among his studies in literary criticism and critical theory are the following: The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (Stanford, 1997), Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture(1993), The Trial: Kafka's Unholy Trinity (1993), Afterimages of Modernity (1990), High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy (1989), The Hegelian Aftermath (1982), and Franz Kafka: Geometrician of Metaphor (1979). He has coedited Psychoanalysis And ... with Richard Feldstein and with Christopher Devenney a collection entitled Engagement and Indifference: Beckett and the Political. He has won research fellowhips from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Camargo Foundation (3). In 1988, he was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.