• Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003.             

• “Women and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Nationalist Mythology.”  Nepantla: Views from South  4.3 (November 2003): 493-522.           

• “Gloria Anzaldúa's Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics.”  Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 30.2 (Fall 2005): 5-31.

• “From Race/Sex/Etc. to Glucose, Feeding Tube, and Mourning: The Shifting Matter of Chicana Feminism.”  Material Feminisms.  Eds. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  Forthcoming in 2007.

• Chicana/o Literature

• Literature of the Southwest

• Inventing Americas: Modern Identity Formations, and Women’s Body Politics.

Suzanne Bost’s primary research interest is identity: what constitutes identity, how identity categories like race and sex interact, and how identity gets politically articulated.  Her publications analyze identity in the context of American literature and popular culture, from 1850 to the present, examining “texts” as varied as the nineteenth-century tragic mulatta novel, contemporary Chicana poetry, feminist rap music, and Frida Kahlo.  Her first book, Mulattas and Mestizas, examines the engendering of mixed identities in African American, Latina, Chicana, and Caribbean literature and culture.  Her new book manuscript, “Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature,” examines Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Ana Castillo’s writings on illness in the context of Aztec body practices, feminist identity theory, and disability studies.  This emphasis on cross-cultural and interdisciplinary comparison carries over into the classroom, where Bost’s students study literary works in relation to their broader cultural contexts (histories, social thought, and popular culture) as well as analyzing how literature functions differently from other disciplines.