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== Abigail Susik<!-- Important, do not remove this line before article has been created. --> ==
[[File:2024-02 Abigail Susik portrait 5x4 CROP v1.jpg|thumb|Abigail Susik, 2024]]
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'''Abigail Susik''' (born January 19, 1977)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Congress |first=The Library of |title=Susik, Abigail, 1977- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies {{!}} Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021130781.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=id.loc.gov}}</ref> is an American art historian, art critic, curator, and theorist of [[avant-garde]] and [[contemporary art]]. Susik’s scholarly research purview includes transnational [[surrealism]], [[dada]], [[Fine-art photography|photography]], [[experimental film]], [[animation]], [[protest art]][[New media art|, new media art]], [[erotic art]], and [[Projection mapping|projection mapping.]] Susik also writes about [[Counterculture|countercultural]] resistance movements and [[Critique of work#Anti-work ethic|anti-work]] or abolitionist theories including the history and theory of [[Strike action|strike]] and [[sabotage]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Introduction |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=1–21 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00007/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00007 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref> She is a Joint Editor of the [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] Transnational Surrealism Book Series and a Board Member of [[Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company|Charles H. Kerr Publishing]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bloomsbury.Domain.Store.Site |title=Transnational Surrealism: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/transnational-surrealism/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.bloomsbury.com |language=en}}</ref> Susik is best known for her book ''Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work'', published in 2021 by [[Manchester University Press]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nechvatal |first=Joseph |date=2022-03-08 |title=Abigail Susik’s Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/art_books/Abigail-Susiks-Surrealist-Sabotage-and-the-War-on-Work |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Education ==
After graduating ''summa cum laude'', [[Phi Beta Kappa]] with a B.A. in English, Art History, and Creative Writing from [[Barnard College]] in 1999, Susik studied in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at [[Columbia University]], receiving her M.A. in 2001, her M.Phil. in 2004, and her Ph.D. (with distinction) in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik {{!}} Art History Faculty & Staff {{!}} Willamette |url=https://willamette.edu/undergraduate/arth/faculty/susik/index.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref> During her graduate degrees, she studied with [[Rosalind E. Krauss|Rosalind Krauss]], [[Benjamin Buchloh]], [[Anne Higonnet]], [[Jonathan Crary]], [[John Rajchman]], and [[Andreas Huyssen]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik {{!}} Art History Faculty & Staff {{!}} Willamette |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/formalism-and-the-demon-of-analogy-a-conversation-with-rosalind-krauss/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-04 |title="Rosalind Krauss" |url=https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/rosalind-krauss |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Columbia University in the City of New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155016 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Manchester University Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Career ==
Susik is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Art History at [[Willamette University]], as well as a faculty advisor for the Master of Arts Critical Studies Program at [[Pacific Northwest College of Art|the Pacific Northwest College of Art]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik {{!}} Art History Faculty & Staff {{!}} Willamette |url=https://willamette.edu/undergraduate/arth/faculty/susik/index.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref> She is a founding Board Member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism and an Associate Editor of its publication, ''International Journal of Surrealism.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Journal of Surrealism |url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/journals/ijs |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=University of Minnesota Press |language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-12-15 |title=Officers, Advisory Board, and Committee Members |url=https://surrealismstudies.org/officers-and-advisory-board/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en}}</ref>Between 2015 and 2019 she was a Member of the New Media Caucus Board of Directors and an Associate Editor of its publication, ''Media''-N'', Journal of the New Media Caucus''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik, 2023–24 {{!}} National Humanities Center |url=https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/abigail-susik-2023-24/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-US}}</ref>

From 2009-2021 Susik was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in Art History at [[Millsaps College]]. In 2022-2023 Susik was a City of Vienna/IFK Senior Fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in [[Vienna]], and in 2023-2024 she is the Allen W. Clowes Fellow at the [[National Humanities Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow - Abigail Susik - IFK |url=https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail/abigail-susik.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.ifk.ac.at}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik, 2023–24 {{!}} National Humanities Center |url=https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/abigail-susik-2023-24/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> She has been named a spring 2025 Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at [[Central European University]] in [[Budapest]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik {{!}} Art History Faculty & Staff {{!}} Willamette |url=https://willamette.edu/undergraduate/arth/faculty/susik/index.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref>

Susik curated an exhibition devoted to the modernist nude photography of [[Imogen Cunningham]] at the [[Hallie Ford Museum of Art]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title="For Myself" {{!}} Nudes by Imogen Cunningham {{!}} HFMA Exhibition |url=https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/exhibitions/library/2015-16/imogen-cunningham.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref> In Autumn 2024, her co-curated retrospective of the surrealist artist [[Alan Glass]] will open at the Museo del [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]] in [[Mexico City]], traveling thereafter to Montreal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |last2=Noheden |first2=Kristoffer |title=Burlington Contemporary - Journal |url=https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/sorprendente-hallazgo-chance-find-alan-glass-and-contemporary-surrealism-in-mexico |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=contemporary.burlington.org.uk |language=en}}</ref>

=== Research Interests ===
Susik’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art and theory, the [[historiography]] of [[art history]], [[Marxism]][[Anarchism|, anarchism]], [[Frankfurt School]] theory, [[Marxist feminism]], [[Social reproduction|social reproduction theory]], [[labor theory of value]], and the history of [[Anti-capitalism|anti-capitalist]] protest movements.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155016 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Manchester University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=“Points of Convergence: Chicago 1960s,” Surrealism Beyond Borders, eds. Stephanie D’Alessandro and Matthew Gale (Tate Modern; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021), 112–15. |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Surrealism_Beyond_Borders |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.metmuseum.org |language=en}}</ref>Her research on post-World War II radicalism in the United States resulted in published interviews and profiles on [[Paul Buhle]], [[John P. Clark]], [[Silvia Federici]], [[Up Against the Wall Motherfucker|Ben Morea,]] and [[Penelope Rosemont]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Susik |first=Abigail |last2=Buhle |first2=Paul |date=2023-08-22 |title=‘So Much Surrealism that Things Will Never Be the Same’: A Conversation with Paul Buhle |url=https://jsa-asu.org/index.php/JSA/article/view/259 |journal=Journal of Surrealism and the Americas |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=91–105 |issn=2326-0459}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2023-06-23 |title=Building a Movement Against the War on Reproduction: Connecting with Silvia Federici |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/building-a-movement-against-the-war-on-reproduction-connecting-with-silvia-federici |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2021-12-08 |title=‘Always for Pleasure’: Chicago Surrealism and Fashion, An Interview with Penelope Rosemont |url=https://jsa-asu.org/index.php/JSA/article/view/228 |journal=Journal of Surrealism and the Americas |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=78–92 |issn=2326-0459}}</ref>She teaches a wide array of courses at [[Willamette University]], including 18<sup>th</sup> through 21<sup>st</sup> century art history, a monographic course on [[Marcel Duchamp]], methodologies of art history, [[Museology]], [[Museology|History of photography]], and a seminar on the [[Critique of work|critique]] and [[refusal of work]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik {{!}} Art History Faculty & Staff {{!}} Willamette |url=https://willamette.edu/undergraduate/arth/faculty/susik/index.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=willamette.edu}}</ref>

=== Author and Critic ===
Susik has published interviews, profile essays, and op-eds in [[Los Angeles Review of Books|the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'']], [[The New York Times|''The New York Times'']], and [[The Washington Post|''The Washington Post'']].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2021-12-11 |title=Opinion {{!}} Could the Great Resignation Help Workers? Take a Look at History. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/opinion/great-resignation-labor-shortage.html |access-date=2024-04-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |title=Abigail Susik |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/abigail-susik |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2022-01-19 |title=Perspective {{!}} Can the pandemic labor shortage help us envision a world without work? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/19/can-pandemic-labor-shortage-help-us-envision-world-without-work/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |work=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> She is a regular contributor to radical publications such as [[Fifth Estate (periodical)|Fifth Estate]] and [[Freedom (British newspaper)|Freedom]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Susik, Fifth Estate |url=https://www.fifthestate.org/search/susik/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> She has authored or co-authored studies on artists and writers including [[Louis Aragon]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term |date=2011-11-20 |work=Regarding the Popular |pages=321–337 |editor-last=Bru |editor-first=Sascha |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110274691.321/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110274691.321 |isbn=978-3-11-027456-1 |editor2-last=Nuijs |editor2-first=Laurence |editor3-last=Hjartarson |editor3-first=Benedikt |editor4-last=Nicholls |editor4-first=Peter}}</ref> [[Walter Benjamin]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Susik |first=Abigail |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Vertigo_of_the_Modern.html?id=Ma_nZwEACAAJ |title=The Vertigo of the Modern: Surrealism and Outmoded |date=2010 |publisher=Columbia University |language=en}}</ref> [[André Breton]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Noheden |first=Kristoffer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wd02EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=abigail+susik&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOvajG67uFAxX1k4kEHbGABPMQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q=abigail%20susik&f=false |title=Surrealism and film after 1945: Absolutely modern mysteries |last2=Susik |first2=Abigail |date=2021-07-06 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-4997-8 |language=en}}</ref> [[Leonora Carrington]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harris |first=Caroline I. |date=2019-03-22 |title=Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-garde. |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=02707993&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA665916262&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs |journal=Woman's Art Journal |language=English |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=56–58}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Snobbism, Juvenilia and ‘The Children’s Corner’: Carrington’s Contributions to S.NOB in 1962,” Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, eds. Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra (Manchester University Press, 2016), 106–24. |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526133199 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Manchester University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Óscar Domínguez]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=3 Óscar Domínguez: Autonomy and autoeroticism |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=110–181 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00010/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00010 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref> [[Marcel Duchamp]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=22–49 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00008/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00008 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref> [[Comte de Lautréamont|Isidore Ducasse]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Wage Labour as Contagion |date=2023-06-14 |work=Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde |pages=165–181 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003309000/chapters/10.4324/9781003309000-11 |access-date=2024-04-12 |edition=1 |place=New York |publisher=Routledge |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003309000-11 |isbn=978-1-003-30900-0}}</ref> [[Max Ernst]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2011-06-01 |title="The Man of these Infinite Possibilities": Max Ernst’s Cinematic Collages |url=http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/contemporaneity/article/view/27 |journal=Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture |volume=1 |pages=61–87 |doi=10.5195/contemp.2011.27 |issn=2153-5914}}</ref> [[Alan Glass]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |last2=Noheden |first2=Kristoffer |title=Burlington Contemporary - Journal |url=https://contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journal/sorprendente-hallazgo-chance-find-alan-glass-and-contemporary-surrealism-in-mexico |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=contemporary.burlington.org.uk |language=en |doi=10.31452/bcj4.glass.susik-noheden}}</ref>[[Eugène Grasset]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Consuming and Consumed: Woman as Habituée in Eugène Grasset’s Morphinomaniac |date=2014 |work=Decadence, Degeneration, and the End |pages=103–123 |editor-last=Härmänmaa |editor-first=Marja |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137470867_7 |access-date=2024-04-12 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137470867_7 |isbn=978-1-349-50080-2 |editor2-last=Nissen |editor2-first=Christopher}}</ref> [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=10 The alchemy of surrealist presence in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealism and film after 1945 |pages=186–206 |editor-last=Noheden |editor-first=Kristoffer |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526150011.00018/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526150011.00018 |isbn=978-1-5261-5001-1 |editor2-last=Susik |editor2-first=Abigail}}</ref>[[Konrad Klapheck]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Epilogue: Override dysfunctions and the ‘Klapheck computer’ |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=238–246 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00012/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00012 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref>[[D.E. May|,]] [[Michel Leiris]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Automatism, Autobiography, and Thanatography in the Surrealist Novel |date=2023-02-16 |work=A History of the Surrealist Novel |pages=56–71 |editor-last=Watz |editor-first=Anna |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009082648%23CN-bp-3/type/book_part |access-date=2024-04-12 |edition=1 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781009082648.005 |isbn=978-1-009-08264-8}}</ref> [[D.E. May|D. E. May]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=D.E. May and the Gift of Unknowable Intimacy – Drain Magazine |url=https://drainmag.com/de-may/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Man Ray]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=50–109 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00009/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00009 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref> [[Hans Richter (artist)|Hans Richter]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=“Animistic Time in Hans Richter’s Vormittagsspuk (1927–1928),” in Time and Temporality in Literary Modernism (1900–1950) (Peeters, 2016), 243–58. |url=https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042933651&series_number_str=&lang=en |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.peeters-leuven.be}}</ref> [[Franklin Rosemont]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=4 Direct action surrealism in Chicago |date=2021-12-31 |work=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |pages=182–237 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7765/9781526155023.00011/html |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |doi=10.7765/9781526155023.00011 |isbn=978-1-5261-5502-3}}</ref>, [[Penelope Rosemont]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Susik |first=Abigail |date=2021-12-08 |title=‘Always for Pleasure’: Chicago Surrealism and Fashion, An Interview with Penelope Rosemont |url=https://jsa-asu.org/index.php/JSA/article/view/228 |journal=Journal of Surrealism and the Americas |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=78–92 |issn=2326-0459}}</ref> [[Françoise Sullivan]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=“‘We Strove to go Further’: Françoise Sullivan, Les Automatistes, and Responses to Surrealism in World War II-era Montreal” International Journal of Surrealism 1:1, “The ‘Problem of Woman’ in Surrealism,” fall 2023 |url=https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ijs0101-01/section/4cf35392-3eb8-4a17-be5b-45e77c4b2567 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=manifold.umn.edu}}</ref> [[Cy Twombly]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Cy Twombly: Writing after Writing,” Rebus: A Journal of Theory and Art History, no. 3 (Winter 2009): 1–28. |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/315228519/Twombly |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Scribd |language=en}}</ref> and [[Jules Verne]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Surrealism and Jules Verne: Depth of Subtext in a Collage by Max Ernst |date=2015-06-01 |work=Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics |pages=16–39 |editor-last=Parkinson |editor-first=Gavin |url=https://academic.oup.com/liverpool-scholarship-online/book/43459/chapter/363310362 |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |doi=10.5949/liverpool/9781781381434.003.0002 |isbn=978-1-78138-143-4}}</ref> In addition to five edited or co-edited volumes, Susik's book ''Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work'' was published in 2021 by [[Manchester University Press]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Susik |first=Abigail |title=Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |url=https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155016 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=Manchester University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> In ''Surrealist Sabotage'', Susik analyzes the critique of wage labor in European and American surrealism between the 1920s and the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Susik |first=Abigail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-dEEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=susik&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN1_an7ruFAxUgjIkEHei4AOoQ6AF6BAgNEAI#v=onepage&q=susik&f=false |title=Surrealist sabotage and the war on work |date=2021-10-12 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-5500-9 |language=en}}</ref>

== Selected Bibliography ==

=== Books ===

==== As author ====

* ''Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work'' ([[Manchester University Press]], 2021).

==== As editor ====

* ''Absolutely Modern Mysteries: Surrealism and Film After 1945'' (with Kristoffer Noheden) ([[Manchester University Press]], 2021).
* ''Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance'' (with Elliott H. King) ([[Penn State University Press]], 2022).
* ''Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement 1964-67'' (Eberhardt Press, 2023).
* ''Bugs Bunny and the Blues: Selected Writings on Surrealism and Popular Culture, 1967-2008'', by Franklin Rosemont (with [[Paul Buhle]]) (forthcoming, [[PM Press]], 2024).
* ''Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present'' (forthcoming, [[Bloomsbury Publishing]], 2025).

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Abigail Susik

Abigail Susik, 2024

Abigail Susik (born January 19, 1977)[1] is an American art historian, art critic, curator, and theorist of avant-garde and contemporary art. Susik’s scholarly research purview includes transnational surrealism, dada, photography, experimental film, animation, protest art, new media art, erotic art, and projection mapping. Susik also writes about countercultural resistance movements and anti-work or abolitionist theories including the history and theory of strike and sabotage.[2] She is a Joint Editor of the Bloomsbury Publishing Transnational Surrealism Book Series and a Board Member of Charles H. Kerr Publishing.[3] Susik is best known for her book Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work, published in 2021 by Manchester University Press.[4]

Education

After graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in English, Art History, and Creative Writing from Barnard College in 1999, Susik studied in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 2001, her M.Phil. in 2004, and her Ph.D. (with distinction) in 2009.[5] During her graduate degrees, she studied with Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh, Anne Higonnet, Jonathan Crary, John Rajchman, and Andreas Huyssen.[6][7][8]

Career

Susik is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Art History at Willamette University, as well as a faculty advisor for the Master of Arts Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.[9] She is a founding Board Member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism and an Associate Editor of its publication, International Journal of Surrealism.[10] [11]Between 2015 and 2019 she was a Member of the New Media Caucus Board of Directors and an Associate Editor of its publication, Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus.[12]

From 2009-2021 Susik was a postdoctoral teaching fellow in Art History at Millsaps College. In 2022-2023 Susik was a City of Vienna/IFK Senior Fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, and in 2023-2024 she is the Allen W. Clowes Fellow at the National Humanities Center.[13][14] She has been named a spring 2025 Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest.[15]

Susik curated an exhibition devoted to the modernist nude photography of Imogen Cunningham at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2016.[16] In Autumn 2024, her co-curated retrospective of the surrealist artist Alan Glass will open at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, traveling thereafter to Montreal.[17]

Research Interests

Susik’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art and theory, the historiography of art history, Marxism, anarchism, Frankfurt School theory, Marxist feminism, social reproduction theory, labor theory of value, and the history of anti-capitalist protest movements.[18] [19]Her research on post-World War II radicalism in the United States resulted in published interviews and profiles on Paul Buhle, John P. Clark, Silvia Federici, Ben Morea, and Penelope Rosemont.[20] [21][22]She teaches a wide array of courses at Willamette University, including 18th through 21st century art history, a monographic course on Marcel Duchamp, methodologies of art history, Museology, History of photography, and a seminar on the critique and refusal of work.[23]

Author and Critic

Susik has published interviews, profile essays, and op-eds in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.[24] [25] [26] She is a regular contributor to radical publications such as Fifth Estate and Freedom.[27] She has authored or co-authored studies on artists and writers including Louis Aragon,[28] Walter Benjamin,[29] André Breton,[30] Leonora Carrington,[31][32] Óscar Domínguez,[33] Marcel Duchamp,[34] Isidore Ducasse,[35] Max Ernst,[36] Alan Glass,[37]Eugène Grasset,[38] Alejandro Jodorowsky,[39]Konrad Klapheck,[40], Michel Leiris,[41] D. E. May,[42] Man Ray,[43] Hans Richter,[44] Franklin Rosemont[45], Penelope Rosemont,[46] Françoise Sullivan,[47] Cy Twombly,[48] and Jules Verne.[49] In addition to five edited or co-edited volumes, Susik's book Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work was published in 2021 by Manchester University Press.[50] In Surrealist Sabotage, Susik analyzes the critique of wage labor in European and American surrealism between the 1920s and the 1970s.[51]

Selected Bibliography

Books

As author

As editor

  • Absolutely Modern Mysteries: Surrealism and Film After 1945 (with Kristoffer Noheden) (Manchester University Press, 2021).
  • Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance (with Elliott H. King) (Penn State University Press, 2022).
  • Resurgence! Jonathan Leake, Radical Surrealism, and the Resurgence Youth Movement 1964-67 (Eberhardt Press, 2023).
  • Bugs Bunny and the Blues: Selected Writings on Surrealism and Popular Culture, 1967-2008, by Franklin Rosemont (with Paul Buhle) (forthcoming, PM Press, 2024).
  • Surrealism and Animation: Transnational Connections, 1920-Present (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025).
  1. ^ Congress, The Library of. "Susik, Abigail, 1977- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  2. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "Introduction", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 1–21, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00007, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  3. ^ Bloomsbury.Domain.Store.Site. "Transnational Surrealism: Bloomsbury Publishing (US)". www.bloomsbury.com. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  4. ^ Nechvatal, Joseph (2022-03-08). "Abigail Susik's Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  5. ^ "Abigail Susik | Art History Faculty & Staff | Willamette". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  6. ^ "Abigail Susik | Art History Faculty & Staff | Willamette". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  7. ^ ""Rosalind Krauss"". Columbia University in the City of New York. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  8. ^ Susik, Abigail. "Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  9. ^ "Abigail Susik | Art History Faculty & Staff | Willamette". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  10. ^ "International Journal of Surrealism". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  11. ^ "Officers, Advisory Board, and Committee Members". 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  12. ^ "Abigail Susik, 2023–24 | National Humanities Center". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  13. ^ "Fellow - Abigail Susik - IFK". www.ifk.ac.at. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  14. ^ "Abigail Susik, 2023–24 | National Humanities Center". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  15. ^ "Abigail Susik | Art History Faculty & Staff | Willamette". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  16. ^ ""For Myself" | Nudes by Imogen Cunningham | HFMA Exhibition". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  17. ^ Susik, Abigail; Noheden, Kristoffer. "Burlington Contemporary - Journal". contemporary.burlington.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  18. ^ "Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  19. ^ Susik, Abigail. ""Points of Convergence: Chicago 1960s," Surrealism Beyond Borders, eds. Stephanie D'Alessandro and Matthew Gale (Tate Modern; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021), 112–15". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  20. ^ Susik, Abigail; Buhle, Paul (2023-08-22). "'So Much Surrealism that Things Will Never Be the Same': A Conversation with Paul Buhle". Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. 14 (1): 91–105. ISSN 2326-0459.
  21. ^ Susik, Abigail (2023-06-23). "Building a Movement Against the War on Reproduction: Connecting with Silvia Federici". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  22. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-08). "'Always for Pleasure': Chicago Surrealism and Fashion, An Interview with Penelope Rosemont". Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. 12 (1): 78–92. ISSN 2326-0459.
  23. ^ "Abigail Susik | Art History Faculty & Staff | Willamette". willamette.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  24. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-11). "Opinion | Could the Great Resignation Help Workers? Take a Look at History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  25. ^ "Abigail Susik". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  26. ^ Susik, Abigail (2022-01-19). "Perspective | Can the pandemic labor shortage help us envision a world without work?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  27. ^ "Susik, Fifth Estate". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  28. ^ Susik, Abigail (2011-11-20), Bru, Sascha; Nuijs, Laurence; Hjartarson, Benedikt; Nicholls, Peter (eds.), "Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term", Regarding the Popular, DE GRUYTER, pp. 321–337, doi:10.1515/9783110274691.321, ISBN 978-3-11-027456-1, retrieved 2024-04-12
  29. ^ Susik, Abigail (2010). The Vertigo of the Modern: Surrealism and Outmoded. Columbia University.
  30. ^ Noheden, Kristoffer; Susik, Abigail (2021-07-06). Surrealism and film after 1945: Absolutely modern mysteries. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-4997-8.
  31. ^ Harris, Caroline I. (2019-03-22). "Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-garde". Woman's Art Journal. 40 (1): 56–58.
  32. ^ Susik, Abigail. "Snobbism, Juvenilia and 'The Children's Corner': Carrington's Contributions to S.NOB in 1962," Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, eds. Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra (Manchester University Press, 2016), 106–24". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  33. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "3 Óscar Domínguez: Autonomy and autoeroticism", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 110–181, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00010, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  34. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 22–49, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00008, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  35. ^ Susik, Abigail (2023-06-14), "Wage Labour as Contagion", Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde (1 ed.), New York: Routledge, pp. 165–181, doi:10.4324/9781003309000-11, ISBN 978-1-003-30900-0, retrieved 2024-04-12
  36. ^ Susik, Abigail (2011-06-01). ""The Man of these Infinite Possibilities": Max Ernst's Cinematic Collages". Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture. 1: 61–87. doi:10.5195/contemp.2011.27. ISSN 2153-5914.
  37. ^ Susik, Abigail; Noheden, Kristoffer. "Burlington Contemporary - Journal". contemporary.burlington.org.uk. doi:10.31452/bcj4.glass.susik-noheden. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  38. ^ Susik, Abigail (2014), Härmänmaa, Marja; Nissen, Christopher (eds.), "Consuming and Consumed: Woman as Habituée in Eugène Grasset's Morphinomaniac", Decadence, Degeneration, and the End, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 103–123, doi:10.1057/9781137470867_7, ISBN 978-1-349-50080-2, retrieved 2024-04-12
  39. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), Noheden, Kristoffer; Susik, Abigail (eds.), "10 The alchemy of surrealist presence in Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain", Surrealism and film after 1945, Manchester University Press, pp. 186–206, doi:10.7765/9781526150011.00018, ISBN 978-1-5261-5001-1, retrieved 2024-04-12
  40. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "Epilogue: Override dysfunctions and the 'Klapheck computer'", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 238–246, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00012, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  41. ^ Susik, Abigail (2023-02-16), Watz, Anna (ed.), "Automatism, Autobiography, and Thanatography in the Surrealist Novel", A History of the Surrealist Novel (1 ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 56–71, doi:10.1017/9781009082648.005, ISBN 978-1-009-08264-8, retrieved 2024-04-12
  42. ^ Susik, Abigail. "D.E. May and the Gift of Unknowable Intimacy – Drain Magazine". Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  43. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotage", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 50–109, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00009, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  44. ^ Susik, Abigail. ""Animistic Time in Hans Richter's Vormittagsspuk (1927–1928)," in Time and Temporality in Literary Modernism (1900–1950) (Peeters, 2016), 243–58". www.peeters-leuven.be. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  45. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-31), "4 Direct action surrealism in Chicago", Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, Manchester University Press, pp. 182–237, doi:10.7765/9781526155023.00011, ISBN 978-1-5261-5502-3, retrieved 2024-04-12
  46. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-12-08). "'Always for Pleasure': Chicago Surrealism and Fashion, An Interview with Penelope Rosemont". Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. 12 (1): 78–92. ISSN 2326-0459.
  47. ^ Susik, Abigail. ""'We Strove to go Further': Françoise Sullivan, Les Automatistes, and Responses to Surrealism in World War II-era Montreal" International Journal of Surrealism 1:1, "The 'Problem of Woman' in Surrealism," fall 2023". manifold.umn.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  48. ^ Susik, Abigail. "Cy Twombly: Writing after Writing," Rebus: A Journal of Theory and Art History, no. 3 (Winter 2009): 1–28". Scribd. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  49. ^ Susik, Abigail (2015-06-01), Parkinson, Gavin (ed.), "Surrealism and Jules Verne: Depth of Subtext in a Collage by Max Ernst", Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics, Liverpool University Press, pp. 16–39, doi:10.5949/liverpool/9781781381434.003.0002, ISBN 978-1-78138-143-4, retrieved 2024-04-12
  50. ^ Susik, Abigail. "Manchester University Press - Surrealist sabotage and the war on work". Manchester University Press. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  51. ^ Susik, Abigail (2021-10-12). Surrealist sabotage and the war on work. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-5261-5500-9.



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