Susan Seizer

Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University

Faculty member at Indiana University since 2006
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Office: 800 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-9700

office phone: 812-856-1986
office fax:       812-855-6014

Academic History

• Faculty member at Scripps College 1998-2006
• M.A, Ph.D. University of Chicago 1997
• B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University. Summa Cum Laude.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Sociocultural Anthropology
• South Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Ethnographic Writing
• Humor in Use
• Performance Studies  
• Gender, Feminist & Queer Studies
• Stigma in Social Theory

Course syllabi

• Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
• Stigma: Culture, Deviance, Identity
• Humor in Use: Culture, Gender, Deviance
• Field Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology
• Introduction to Women's Studies
• Malls, Museums & Other Amusements: the public sphere in the U.S. in the 20th century

Recent scholarship

"The Grotesque in Sheep's Clothing, Rearing its Head to Make Us Howl," paper on stand-up comedy at the American Anthropological Association meetings, San Jose, CA, November 2006.

"The Afterlife of Fieldwork Relations.", Indian Folklife, Serial No. 23, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India, August 2006.

"Post-Field Positionings.", Guest Editor, Indian Folklife, Serial No. 23, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India, August 2006.

Editor’s Concept Statement for upcoming issue, Indian Folklife, Serial No. 22, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, India, July 2006.

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India. Duke University Press, 2005. Click here for review essay, Anthropological Quarterly v78n3, Summer 2005.   http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3/?isbn=0-8223-3443-7

"Everything You See is Part of the History of This Place." Paper given at the Bernard S. Cohn Memorial Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 2005.

"Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India." Cultural Anthropology , Vol. 15, No. 2, May 2000, pp. 217-259.

"Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance on the Tamil Popular Stage." American Ethnologist, 24:1, Feb 1997, pp. 62-90.

"Playing the Field." Review Essay in Transition: An International Review . Issue 71, V6N3: 100-113, Fall 1996. [Review of Taboo: sex, identity and erotic subjectivity in anthropological fieldwork , Don Kulick and Margaret Wilson, eds.]

"Paradoxes of Visibility in the Field: Rites of Queer Passage in Anthropology." Public Culture, Vol. 8 No. 1, Fall 1995, pp. 73-100.

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