Suzanne Gossett

Suzanne S. Gossett (b. 1941) received her B.A. from Smith College in 1962.
From 1962 to 1963 she studied at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar.
Gossett earned her M.A. at Princeton University in 1965, and a Ph.D. from the same
institution in 1968.
In 1968, Gossett began her career at Loyola University Chicago in the English
Department, and was awarded tenure in 1984. From 1979 to 1988 she was also the
director of the Women’s Studies Program. She stepped down from that position and
subsequently became the Director of Graduate Programs in English from 1989 to 1990.
From 1990 to 1996, Gossett was the English Department Chair. Gossett has also held
administrative leadership positions on the Ph.D. Council, Faculty Council, and Academic
Priorities Committee. Among her many accomplishments at the university, Gossett was
named a Faculty Scholar in 2003.
Outside of her work at the university, Gossett has written and/or edited numerous
articles and books. Titles of her published books include Declarations of Independence:
Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction (1990), and
Jacobean Academic Plays: Malone Society Collections XII (1988). Gossett has also
served as editor of several new editions of works, including Middleton in Context (2011),
Philaster (2009), and Bartholomew Fair (2000), among others. She has written articles
that have been published in volumes and textbooks, as well as in scholarly journals such
as English Literary Renaissance, American Quarterly, Modern Philology, and others. She
was the general editor of Arden Early Modern Drama series, and general textual editor
(with Gordon McMullan) of the Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition.