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Susan Brill de Ramírez
Office: 393 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-2472
E-mail: brill@bradley.edu
Dr. Susan Brill de Ramírez has specializations in literary criticism and theory and American Indian literature. She came to Bradley University in 1991 from the University of New Mexico upon completion of her Ph.D. in English. At Bradley, Dr. Brill de Ramírez teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in literary criticism and theory, and undergraduate courses in American Indian literatures, American literature, Freshman Composition, and Western Civilization.
Dr. Brill de Ramírez's research interests straddle the diverse fields of American Indian literatures and literary criticism and theory. Her first book, Wittgenstein and Critical Theory: Beyond Postmodern Criticisms and Towards Descriptive Investigations (Ohio UP, 1995), introduces the value of Wittgensteinian philosophy for the practice of reading and interpreting literature. Her current manuscript, The Conversive Imagination: Reading American Indian Literatures Relationally, introduces a new orally based critical methodology for reading and interpreting American Indian literatures. Dr. Brill de Ramírez is widely published in the areas of criticism and theory, American Indian literatures, and philosophy and literature.
Dr. Brill de Ramírez has served on a number of committees at Bradley University. Currently, she serves on the University Curriculum and Regulations Committee and the English Department's Assessment Committee, which she chairs. She is also one of the English De partment's two representatives on the Faculty Senate. Dr. Brill de Ramírez has been a pioneer in the area of service learning at Bradley University, involving her freshman composition students in community service projects that serve as the basis for their journal writing and final paper topics. Also, during the 1996 May Interim, she accompanied nine Bradley students at a Navajo reservation, where they studied southwest Indian literatures and cultures by becoming part of the community.