Susan Searls Giroux is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the author of several books including Sites of Race: Conversations with Susan Searls Giroux, coauthored with David Theo Goldberg (Polity, 2014) and Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come (Stanford University Press), which won the prestigious Gary A. Olson Award for Best Book Published in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies in 2010. She is also the author, with Henry A. Giroux, of Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Palgrave, 2004) and, with Jeffrey T. Nealon, The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). A revised, expanded edition of The Toolbox appeared in August 2011, and a third edition is scheduled for publication in 2025.
Additionally, Dr. Giroux has published over thirty articles and book chapters on US racial politics, the persistence of racism in the post-civil rights era, modern and contemporary American literature, and the history and politics of the university, which has been informed by ten years of service in senior university administration. She is also a licensed and practicing psychotherapist which has greatly influenced her recent work in psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and emotion particularly in the context of millennial literature and culture.
