Biography

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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. She is now an Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to Irish drama, her teaching interests include contemporary Irish literature, modern British fiction, gender studies, queer 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 has also published on eighteenth-century theater and culture in Ireland in PMLA and Theatre Journal. She is currently at work on a book about twentieth-century Irish drama and the cultural and political left.

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sharris2@nd.edu

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