Biography


Susan Cannon Harris graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1991. In 1993 she earned her master's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998.

Since August 1998 she has served on the faculty of  the Department of English and the Keough Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame. From 1999-2001 she served as the Undergraduate Director for the Keough Institute. In addition to Irish drama, her teaching interests include contemporary Irish literature, modern British fiction, gender studies, African literature in English, and crime fiction.

Her first book, Gender and Modern Irish Drama (Indiana University Press 2002) was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book in Irish Studies as well as the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. 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; articles from the project have appeared in PMLA and Theatre Journal.


Susan.C.Harris.90@nd.edu