Film Studies

Susan Bruce read English at the University of Cambridge. She took her MA and doctorate from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her main research areas are early modern English literature, feminist literary theory, and the history and practice of English in Higher Education, and she also has interests in twentieth century literature and in photography and literature. She is currently Head of the School of Humanities.

My doctoral research was a feminist study of Utopian fiction in the early modern period, out of which issued my anthology of Three Early Modern Utopias for Oxford World's Classics. I remain interested in utopian fiction, but have also written more recently on representations of memory, history and the self in literature produced between the two world wars; on the relations between literature and photography; and on the intersections between fiction and economy, both generally, and in Shakespearean texts.    I am also currently conducting an inter-disciplinary project with colleagues in Literature and Education departments in other U.K. universities.  This project, The Production of University English, aims to discover what it is that is actually taught and learned in the English seminars of diverse U.K. universities in order to contribute to current debates about the ‘Value’ of the Humanities.