Susan Cannon Harris graduated summa cum laude from
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