Susan Cannon Harris
Associate Professor
Degrees
B.A., Yale; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Specialty
Irish drama and literature, modern British fiction, gender studies, African literature in English, and crime fiction.
Profile
Susan Cannon Harris teaches in the Department of English and the Keough Institute for Irish Studies. Harris's first book, Gender and Modern Irish Drama, was published in 2002 and won two awards. She has also published articles in Genders, the James Joyce Quarterly, Eire-Ireland, Modern Drama, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Emily Dickinson Journal. She is currently at work on a project about theater and culture in eighteenth-century Dublin. In addition to Irish drama, Harris's teaching interests include contemporary Irish literature, modern British fiction, gender studies, African literature in English, and crime fiction.
Recent Publications
“Mixed Marriage: Sheridan, Macklin, and the Hybrid Audience.” In Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800, edited by Michael Cordner and Peter Holland. Forthcoming, 2007.
“Red Star Versus Green Goddess: Sean O’Casey’s The Star Turns Red and the Politics of Form.” In a special issue, edited by Gretchen Olberfranc, Princeton University Library Quarterly forthcoming.
“Her Blood and Her Brother: Gender and Sacrifice in Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians.” In Renegades Against the State in Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, edited by Scott Boltwood. Colin Smythe Press, forthcoming.
“Outside the Box: The Female Spectator, The Fair Penitent, and the Kelly Riots of 1747.” Theatre Journal 57 (2005): 35-55.
“Clearing the Stage: Gender, Class, and the ‘Freedom of the Scenes’ in Eighteenth-Century Dublin.” PMLA 119 (2004): 1264-78.
Gender and Modern Irish Drama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Recent Awards and Honors
Kaneb Teaching Award, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, 2005
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2003
Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2003.
Contact Information
712 Flanner Hall
(574) 631-5088
Susan.C.Harris.90@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~sharris2