Education
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY (2008, History)
Certificate in Medieval Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2008)
M.Phil., The Graduate Center, CUNY (2003, History)
B.A., Yale University (1997, Humanities)
Bio
Susannah Crowder is Chair and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College, CUNY, where she has teaching specialties in gender studies and experiential pedagogy. She earned her doctorate in Medieval History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, during which time she was a Robert E. Gilleece fellow and received the Birgit Baldwin Fellowship in French Medieval History from the Medieval Academy of America. She earned her B.A. from Yale University with a focus on medieval studies. Professor Crowder has published numerous articles on topics relating to gender, space, and performance culture, and a prize-winning monograph entitled Performing Women: Gender, Self, and Representation in Late Medieval Metz (2018).
JJC Affiliations
Course Taught
Scholarly Work
Monograph
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Gendered Devotions: Negotiating Body, Space, Object, and Text through Performance,” European Medieval Drama 21 (2017): 43-66.
“Performance in the Early Medieval West: Cultural Practice and Expression of Identity in the Marriage of Sigibert I and Brunhild,” ROMARD (Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama) 50 (2011): 17-29.
“Gender and the Local Expression of Authority in Philippe de Vigneulles's Metz,” Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes 22 (2011): 181-91. Special topic: “Crimes et délits, justice et règlement des conflits dans l’oeuvre de Philippe de Vigneulles,” eds. Catherine M. Jones and Bernard Ribémont.
“Children, Costume, and Identity in the Chester Midsummer Show” Early Theatre 10.1 (2007): 13-34.
Book Chapter
“Ivory and Parchment, Flesh and Stone: Performance and the Activation of Sacred Space.” In L’Eglise, lieu de performances: In Locis competentibus, eds. Stéphanie-Diane Daussy and Nicolas Reveryron, 137-48. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2016.
Book Reviews
Charles Mazouer, Le théâtre français du Moyen Âge, 2nd ed., in French Studies 72.1 (2018): 101-2.
Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès et al., eds., Les péres du théâtre médiéval: Examen critique de la constitution d’un savoir académique in Speculum 87.1 (2012): 184-5.
Mireille Chazan and Gérard Nauroy, eds., Écrire l’histoire à Metz au Moyen Âge in The Medieval Review, 5 November (2012).
D. Maddox and S. Sturm-Maddox, eds., Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century in The Medieval Review, 7 January (2010).
Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relations and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays and William Tydeman, ed., The Medieval European Stage, 500-1500 in Renaissance Quarterly 56.2 (2003): 546-8.