Books
Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon, eds. Women’s Restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures. York, Arc Humanities Press, 2024.
Suzanne M. Edwards, The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature. New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2016.
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Witnessing Sexual Violence in Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee.” Chaucer and Trauma, edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin, 125–45. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2025.
Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon, “Introduction: Restoring Forgotten Pasts for Unimagined Futures.” Women’s Restorative Medievalisms: Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures, 1–18. York: Arc Humanities Press, 2024.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “‘A Beginning for Them All’: The Medieval Pluriverse of Gloria Naylor’s ‘Sapphira Wade.’” postmedieval 14.1 (2023): 119-148.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Mothering with Cancer: Between Life and Death in Contemporary US Film, Literature, and Culture.” Mothering Outside the Lines, 241–64. Edited by BettyAnn Martin and Michelann Parr. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2023.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Rape, Rapture, and Writing The Book of Margery Kempe.” Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature, 130–47. Edited by Sarah Baechle, Carissa Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov. Pennsylvania State University Press: University Park, 2022.
Suzanne M. Edwards and Trudier Harris, “Gloria Naylor’s Sapphira Wade: An Unfinished Manuscript from the Archive.” African American Review 52.4 (Winter 2019), 323-40.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “‘Burn All He Has, But Keep His Books’: Gloria Naylor and the Proper Objects of Feminist Chaucer Studies.” Special Issue, “New Feminist Approaches to Chaucer.” Edited by Samantha Katz Seal and Nicole Nolan Sidhu. Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-252.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Rape, Politics, and Medieval Saints: Transhistorical Perspectives in the Undergraduate Classroom.” In Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts, 12–28. Edited by Alison Gulley. Arc Humanities Press: Leeds, 2018.
Benjamin G. Wright and Suzanne M. Edwards, “‘She Undid Him with the Beauty of Her Face’ (Jdt 16.6): Reading Women's Bodies in Early Jewish Literature.” In Religion and the Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments, 73–108. Edited by Géza G. Xeravits. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 28. Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, 2015.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “The Rhetoric of Rape and the Politics of Gender in the Wife of Bath’s Tale and the 1382 Statute of Rapes.” Exemplaria 23.1 (Spring 2011): 3-26.
Notes and Reference Entries
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Rape.” In The Chaucer Encyclopedia, edited by Richard Newhauser, Vincent Gillespie, Jessica Rosenfeld, and Katie Walter. Hoboken: Wiley, 2023.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Graveside Singing: Medieval Debate Poetry and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 2.2, Autumn 2021: 90-94.
Suzanne M. Edwards, “Consent and Misogyny: Response to Sarah Baechle and Sara V. Torres” Colloquium on Consent, edited by Carissa M. Harris and Fiona Somerset. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2022: 335-6.
Public-Facing Scholarship: Archival, Digital, Creative, and Analytical
Suzanne M. Edwards (primary author), Mark Wonsidler, and Mary Foltz. “Gloria Naylor’s Other Places: Revealing a Writer’s Archive.” Exhibition. September 1, 2021-May 27, 2022. Dubois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University and Sacred Heart University, October 1, 23-January 1, 24.
Mark Volker (composer) and Suzanne M. Edwards (textual and interpretive consultant). “Body and Soul: After the Plague,” a 50-minute chamber music piece. Premiered July 2021, by Chatterbird Ensemble in the Nashville Parthenon.
Afiwa Afandalo, Ellen Boyd, Nadia Butler, Victoria Davis, Suzanne M. Edwards (primary author), Mary Foltz, Lauren Gilmore, Sam Sorensen, Isaiah Rivera, Rob Weidman, and Ayanna Woods, The Gloria Naylor Archive, website, finding aid, digitization, and metadata creation, https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/naylorarchive/. First published August 2020, with significant updates in 2021 and 2023.
Suzanne M. Edwards and Larry Snyder, “Yes, balancing work and parenting is impossible. Here’s the data.” Washington Post, July 10, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/interruptions-parenting-pandemic-work-home/2020/07/09/599032e6-b4ca-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html. July 12, 2020 (print).
Suzanne M. Edwards, “What the ‘Health of the Mother’ Means,” Salon, October 24, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/what_health_of_the_mother_means/.