Susan Lepselter

Associate Professor, American Studies

Email:: slepselt@iu.edu

Department:: Department of American Studies
Campus:: IU Bloomington

Ballantine Hall, 576

About Susan Lepselter

Education

Ph.D., Folklore and Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
B.A., Wesleyan University

Research

Interdisciplinary creative scholarship, public feeling and affect theory, uncanny conspiracy theory, neurodivergence in culture, human/non-human animal interaction, indigenous film and literature.

Selected national honors + awards

Gregory Bateson Book Prize, the annual award of the Society for Cultural
Anthropology, 2017 New Frontiers Experimentation Award for Poetry, Indiana
University, 2018 IU Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Mumford Award, Indiana University, June 2021

Courses recently taught

Graduate courses:

The Social Life of Affect (creative nonfiction workshop/theory seminar)
Interdisciplinary Ethnography

Undergraduate courses:

Captivity Narratives
The Social Life of Dreaming
Indigenous Film and Media
Ethnography of the United States