Susanna Ashton is a Professor of English at Clemson University, and her work has been profiled in the New York Times, CNN and many other media outlets across the country.
Some of the notable awards she has held include a W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, a Fulbright to Ireland, and a fellowship with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance. She has co-directed an NEH Summer Institute on the Black Archive.
She has authored, edited, or coauthored multiple titles on American literary and cultural history, including Collaborators in Literary America 1870-1920; “I Belong in South Carolina.” South Carolina Slave Narratives; (w/ Tom Lutz) These ‘Colored’ United States: African American Essays from the 1920s; (w/ Rhondda R. Thomas) The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought; (w/Bill Hardwig) Approaches to Teaching Charles W. Chesnutt. In addition to those book projects, she has published in many scholarly journals as well as popular newspapers and public-facing digital media.
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