Susan Cannon Harris

Professor of English

Department: English

Area of Specialization:

LGBT fiction, performance theory, feminist/queer drama, gender and nationalism

Susan Cannon Harris is a professor in the Department of English and the Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. She works on modern and contemporary Irish drama from a queer and feminist perspective. Her books include Gender and Modern Irish Drama (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Gender Studies Courses:

• Gender and Irish Drama
• Gender & Sexuality in American Drama
• Gender Troubles: Gender & Sexuality in Irish Fiction After Joyce
• Queer Plots: Narrative & Sexuality