
The Last Lecture: The Virtue of Uncertainty
Susan Celia Greenfield’s “last lecture” to this year’s Fordham University graduation class considers whether “things will get worse,” and what to do about it....
Susan Celia Greenfield, Professor of English at Fordham University, is the editor of Sacred Shelter: Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing. She is the author of Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen (Wayne State, 2002) and of many scholarly articles on Austen and other English novelists. Her op-eds have appeared in CNN Opinion, PBS Need to Know, and HuffPost. She also publishes short fiction.