Sue Currell
Reader Emeritus (American Studies)

Selected publications

Article

Currell, Susan (2019) 'This may be the most dangerous thing Donald Trump believes’: eugenic populism and the American body politic. Amerikastudien / American Studies, 64 (2). pp. 291-302. ISSN 0340-2827

Currell, Sue (2017) You haven't seen their faces: eugenic national housekeeping and documentary photography in 1930s America. Journal of American Studies, 51 (2). pp. 481-511. ISSN 0021-8758

Currell, Susan (2013) “Wall Street lays an egg": financial drama and the 1933 banking collapse in Archibald MacLeish’s Panic: a drama of industrial crisis (1935). Modern Drama, 56 (3). pp. 1-25. ISSN 0026-7694

Currell, Susan (2010) Breeding better babies in the eugenic garden city: 'municipal Darwinism' and the (anti)cosmopolitan utopia in the early twentieth century. Modernist Cultures, 5 (2). pp. 267-290. ISSN 2041-1022

Currell, Sue (2006) Consumerism and american girls? Literature: 1860-1940 by Peter Stoneley. Modern Language Review, 101 (1). pp. 234-235. ISSN 0026-7937

Currell, Susan (2002) [Review] Cary Nelson (2001) Revolutionary memory: recovering the poetry of the American left; Saverio Giovacchini (2001) Hollywood modernism: film and politics in the age of the new deal; Robert Shulman (2000) The power of political art: the 1930s literary left reconsidered". Textual Practice, 16 (2). pp. 397-404. ISSN 0950-236X

Currell, Sue (1998) [Review] Bill Brown (1996) The material unconscious: American amusement, Stephen Crane and the economies of play. Textual Practice, 12 (3). pp. 551-555. ISSN 0950-236X

Book

Currell, Susan (2009) American culture in the 1920s. Twentieth-century American culture . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748625222

Book Section

Currell, Sue (2010) The tyranny of words in the economy of abundance: modernism, language, and politics in 'Let us now praise famous men'. In: Blinder, Caroline (ed.) New critical essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 79-104. ISBN 9780230102927

Currell, Sue (2008) The new deal for leisure: federal recreation programs during the Great Depression. In: Lagayette, Pierre (ed.) Loisir et Liberté en Amérique du Nord. Presses Paris Sorbonne, Paris, pp. 31-40. ISBN 9782840505402

Currell, Sue (2007) Streamlining the eye: speed reading and the revolution of words, 1870-1940. In: Acland, Charles R (ed.) Residual Media. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 344-360. ISBN 9780816644711

Currell, Sue (2006) Depression and recovery: self-help and America in the 1930s. In: Bell, David and Hollows, Joanne (eds.) Historicizing lifestyle: mediating taste, consumption and identity from the 1900s to 1970s. Ashgate, pp. 131-144. ISBN 9780754644415

Currell, Sue (2004) Walter B. Pitkin. In: American National Biography. Oxford University Press.

Edited Book

Currell, Susan and Cogdell, Christina (2006) Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio University Press. ISBN 0-8214-1692-8

Teaching Resource

Currell, Sue (2002) American studies and the Internet. [Teaching Resource]