Department of English
356 O'Shaughnessy
Notre
(574) 631-5088
Fax: (574) 631-3620
Email: sharris2@nd.edu
Ph.D., English, with specialization in
twentieth-century Irish literature,
Dissertation: Bodies and Blood:
Gender and Sacrifice in Modern Irish Drama. Co-directors: Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Barbara Harlow. Readers: Ann Cvetkovich, Oscar Brockett, Charlotte Canning.
M.A., English,
B.A., English,
Gender
And Modern Irish Drama.
Awarded
the Donald Murphy Prize
for a Distinguished First Book in Irish Studies and the Robert Rhodes prize for
Books on Literature by the American Conference
for Irish Studies, 2003.
“Synge
and Gender.” The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. P. J. Mathews,
ed. Forthcoming 2009.
“Her
Blood And Her Brother: Gender and Sacrifice in Frank McGuinness's Carthaginians.” Renegotiating
and Resisting Nationalism in 20th-Century Irish Drama.
Scott Boltwood, ed. Gerards
Cross: Colin Smythe Press, 2009. 111-128.
“Mixed
Marriage: Sheridan, Macklin, and the Hybrid Audience.” Players,
Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800. Ed. Michael Cordner
and Peter Holland.
“Red
Star Versus Green Goddess: Sean O’Casey’s
The Star Turns Red and the Politics of Form.” Princeton University
Library Chronicle 48 (2006-2007): 339-380.
"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): 1264-1278.
“Pathological Possibilities: Contagion,
Containment and Empire in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories.” Victorian
Literature and Culture 31 (2003): 447-466.
“The Tender Mother and the Faithful Wife:
Theater, Charity, and Female Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century
“More
Than a Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public Health and the Playboy Riots.” A
Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage. Stephen Watt et al., eds.
“Invasive
Procedures: Imperial Medicine and Population Control in Ulysses and The Satanic Verses.” James Joyce
Quarterly 35 (1998): 373-400.
“Watch
Yourself: Performance, Sexual Difference, and Identity in the Work of Frank McGuinness.” Genders 28 (1998).
“All
That Trouble and Nothing to Show for It: Yeats's The
“The
Ethics of Indecency: Censorship, Sexuality, and the Voice of the Academy in the
Narration of Jacob's Room.” Twentieth-Century Literature 43 (1997): 420-438.
“Blow
the Witches Out: Gender Construction and the Subversion of Nationalism in Yeats's Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's
“Illuminating
the Eclipse: Dickinson's 'Representative' and the Marriage Narrative.” The Emily Dickinson
Journal 4.2 (1995): 44-61.
“Don
the Robes and Taste Real Power: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Power of
Ritual in Two Plays by Brian Friel.” Working
Papers in Irish Studies 94.3 (1994): 24-38.
Deep-Rooted
Things: Empire and Nation in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats, by Rob
Doggett. Forthcoming in Modern Philology.
Sean
O’Casey: Writer at Work, by Christopher Murray. Modern Drama 51
(2008): 305-307.
Riotous
Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater 1712-1784, by Helen
Burke. South Atlantic Review 69 (2004): 134-138.
James
Joyce: A Short Introduction,
by Michael Seidel. Irish Studies Review 11 (2003): 365-366.
Ireland's
National Theaters, by
Mary Trotter. New Hibernia Review 6 (2002): 151-153.
“James Joyce after Postcolonialism.” Modern
Fiction Studies 47 (2001): 1004-1008.
Brendan
Behan: A Life, by
Michael O'Sullivan. The Irish Literary Supplement 19.2 (2000): 4.
James Joyce's Judaic Other, by Marilyn Reizbaum.
Modern
Fiction Studies 46.2 (2000): 531-533.
James
Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's
Nightmare, by Robert Spoo. Studies
in the Novel 28 (1996): 271-273.
“Found in Translation: Baile Beag and Twenty-first
Century America." University of Hawaii at Manoa,
January 23, 2009.
"Remaking
History: Friel, Field Day, and the first Translations."
University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 22, 2009.
“Red Star Rising: Sean O’Casey and
British Left Theatre, 1934-1940.” Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies,
“O’Blunder
in Love: Marriage, Masculinity, and Irishness on the
Eighteenth-Century Stage.”
“What Still Matters.” Sequels. Annual symposium sponsored
by the Ethnic and Third World
Literatures graduate specialization in the Department of English at The
University of Texas at Austin.
“Mixed Marriage: Irish Playwrights and
the Hybrid Audience.” Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating
Performance, 1660-1800.
“Burning Down The
House: T.C. Murray’s Autumn Fire and the Irish Family.”
Reading the Decades, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, September 29, 2004.
"Theater and
the Soldier's Body." The Irish Seminar,
"Theater and
the Mother's Body." The Irish Seminar,
"The Kelly
Riots, Eighteenth Century Irish Theater, and the Gendering of Class."
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Seminar for College and University Teachers,
"Labor Pains: O'Casey, The Abbey,
and
“Conditions of Anglo-Irish
Performance: The Distrest Mother in
“A Morbid, Unhealthy Mind: Public
Health and the Playboy Riots.” Nationalism and a National Theatre: One
Hundred Years of the Irish Literary Theatre.
“Maurya Get
Your Gun: Irish Drama, the Working Class Mother, and Left Theatre, 1904-1937.”
American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General Meeting,
“Stealing with
Decency: Irish Men, English Audiences, and the Marriage Act of 1753.”
Modern Language Association Annual General Meeting,
“To Wed A Fair One: Irish Masculinity
and the Eighteenth-Century Marriage Comedy.” Southern Region of the American
Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, University of
“The Jim Larkin Show: Political
Theatre and the 1913
“Is There a Text in This Riot?: Why There Isn’t More Work Done On Eighteenth-century
Irish Drama.” Modern Language Association,
"Clearing the
Stage: The Battle for the 'Freedom of the Scenes' in Dublin's Smock-Alley
Theater." American Conference for Irish Studies
Annual General Meeting,
"Ladies and Gentlemen: The
Fair Penitent, the Kelly Riots, and the Gendering of Class." South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
“Brother
“Pathological
Possibilities: Contagion and Empire in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories.” Victorians
Institute.
“Double
Reproduction: The
“The
'Man' in 'Gunman': Masculinity, the Volunteers, and Sean O'Casey's
Shadow of a Gunman.”Annual General Meeting of the American Conference for Irish
Studies.
“All
That Trouble And Nothing To Show For It: Yeats, The
“Mother
Indira: Reproductive Anxiety and Nationalist
Narratives in Salman Rushdie's
“Invasive
Procedures: Medicine, Reproduction, and the Pathologization
of the Colonial Body in Ulysses.” American Conference for Irish Studies, Southern Region.
“Bodies
and Blood: Gender and the Revision of Ritual in the Work of Frank McGuinness.”
“Blow
the Witches Out: Gender Subversion and the Nationalist Project in Cathleen ni Houlihan and On Baile's Strand.” Fighting Irish Studies in America:
Ninth Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference.
“The
Ethics of Indecency: Sexuality, Censorship, and the Academy in the Narration of
Jacob's Room.” Twenty-Third Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.
“Watch
Yourself: Performance, Sexual Difference, and Identity in the Plays of Frank McGuinness.” American Conference for Irish Studies
Annual General Meeting.
“Fertility
and the
“Don
the Robes and Taste Real Power: Ritual and Ceremony in Two Plays by Brian Friel.” American Conference for Irish Studies
Southern Region. University of Tulsa. February 1993.
Institute for Scholarship in the
Liberal Arts Summer Stipend, 1999.
Pre-emptive Fellowship, University of Texas, 1994-1995.
Merit Assistantship, University of North Carolina, 1991-1992.
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.
Department of English Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas, 1997.
Ruth Rose Richardson Prize, University of North Carolina, 1992.
Summa cum laude, Yale University, 1991.
Distinction in the major, Yale University, 1991.
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1990.
2004-present:
Associate Professor, Department of English and Keough
Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
1998-2004: Assistant
Professor, Department of English and Keough Institute
for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Graduate:
ENGL 90920 Theory
and Practice of Theatrical Realism
ENGL 90520 Theater
and Theory
ENGL 577A Irish Drama & Revolutionary
Politics
ENGL 571E Contemporary British Drama
Undergraduate:
ENGL
43505
Gender Troubles:
Contemporary Irish Fiction
ENGL
43502 Contemporary
Irish Literature
ENGL 40509 Modern
Irish Drama
ENGL 30111 British Literary Traditions II:
1660-present
ENGL 30101 Introduction to Literary Studies
1995-1998: Assistant
Instructor, Department of English,
1993-1994: Teaching
Assistant, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
English 12 Writing
Across the Curriculum.
English 11 Freshman Composition.
Executive Committee, Anglo-Irish
Discussion Group, Modern Language Association. 2009-present.
Selection committee for the Robert
Rhodes Book Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies. 2009.
Committee on Appointments and
Placement, Department of English, 2004-2006, 2008-present.
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of English,
2002-2004, 2008-2009.
Chair of the Undergraduate Studies
Committee, Department of English, 2006-2007.
Co-coordinator, Annual General Meeting of the American
Conference for Irish Studies, 2004-2005.
Committee on Appointments and Placement, Department of
Irish Language and Literature, 2005-2006.
University Committee on Women Faculty and Staff,
2004-2005.
Undergraduate Curriculum Review
Steering Committee, Department of English, 2004-2005.
Chair, Lectures Committee, Department of English,
2003-2004.
First Year Composition Curriculum Committee, 2003-2004.
Modern Language Association
American Conference for Irish Studies