Senior Assistant Professor
Dr. Zuber teaches broadly across the humanities, designing courses that mix literary studies, cultural studies, writing, and law. She teaches undergraduate and graduate students in various programs on campus including Data Science and Machine Learning (major), Maritime and Naval Studies (graduate program), Maritime Studies (major), and General Education (SUNY required courses). Her courses include: GIS/Mapping in the Humanities, Literature of the Sea, Postcolonial Literature, Oceanic Migrations, World Civilization & Culture-1550-present, Rags to Riches at Sea, and Freshman Composition I.
In the classroom, Dr. Zuber aims to spark students’ interest in the humanities through analysis of dfferent cultural texts--memoirs, advertisements, school publications, court cases, photographs, comics, speeches, political declarations, television shows, poems, films--in order to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the wealth of human experience. She seeks to cultivate critical thinking and empathy in her students, which are vital skills for living a more authentic, compassionate, informed, and engaged life, as well as building a more just world for everyone.
Dr. Zuber’s research is in the field of eighteenth-century British and American literature and culture. Her specific areas of interest are economic mobility, narratives of working life, the history of the novel, and the history of the professions. She is also interested in digital humanities and uses Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for literary analysis. Her current book project, Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, analyzes and maps “rags to riches” stories published in eighteenth-century Great Britain to interrogate the cultural role of such stories in contemporary popular understandings of economic opportunity.
- Ph.D. in English, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- J.D. Washington College of Law, American University
- B.A. in French & Comparative Area Studies (double major), Duke University
Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility in British Literature, 1719-1809 (manuscript in revision)
Dr. Zuber is an attorney and current member of the New York State Bar. During law school she worked in the U.S Attorney’s Office (Civil Division), the U.S. Department of Justice (Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section), for Senator Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania), and with the Honorable Eugene N. Hamilton (Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia), before clerking for the Honorable Miriam Shearing (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada). After her clerkship, she practiced corporate litigation at a boutique firm in New York City.
- 2021 Special Discretionary Director's Scholarship
Rare Book School, University of Virginia - 2019-2020 Open Educational Research (OER) Faculty Fellowship
Queens College, CUNY
2013-2014 Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) Fellowship
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Book
Mapping the Fictions of Economic Mobility in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (manuscript in revision)
Article
“‘On the Choice of a Profession’: Edgeworthian Education for the Upper Ranks” (in revision)
Digital Projects
“Mapping Defoe” (a web-based teaching tool that uses GIS to explore the geographic dimension of the hero’s travels in Defoe’s novels of economic mobility) (in development)
“Exposing the False Promise of Upward Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature” (medium scale mapping project comparing economic mobility narratives in British, Caribbean, and American Literature 1700-1900) (in development)