Professor Susan Bruce

Title: Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities
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Susan Bruce

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.

Selected Publications

  • Bruce SE. 2012. Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency. In Utopian Moments. Davis JC, 's MA, Avilés M (Eds.). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Bruce SE. 2012. ‘Using Your Profanisaurus: Comparisons, Analogies and Cultural Capital in Two English Literature Seminars.’. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, vol. 12(1).
  • Bruce S and Steinberger R. 2010. Renaissance Literature Handbook. Continuum Intl Pub Group.
  • BRUCE SE. 2007. 'Sherston's imaginary friend: Siegfried Sassoon's autobiographical prose and the idea of photography'. Biography, vol. 30(2), 173-193. doi>
  • Bruce S. 2007. Illusions of Absence: Disappearances, Displacements and the Limits of Responsibility in The Winter's Tale and The Remains of the Day. Intermedialites, vol. 10, 77-94.

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Books

  • Bruce S and Steinberger R. 2010. Renaissance Literature Handbook. Continuum Intl Pub Group.
  • More T, Bacon F, Neville H. 1999. Three Early Modern Utopias. Oxford Paperbacks.
  • Bruce S. 1998. William Shakespeare, King Lear. Columbia Univ Pr.
  • Bruce S. Wagner V and Bruce S (Eds.). Fiction and Economy: New essays on Economics and Literature. Palgrave.

Journal Articles

  • Bruce SE. 2012. ‘Using Your Profanisaurus: Comparisons, Analogies and Cultural Capital in Two English Literature Seminars.’. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: an international journal of theory, research and practice, vol. 12(1).
  • BRUCE SE. 2007. 'Sherston's imaginary friend: Siegfried Sassoon's autobiographical prose and the idea of photography'. Biography, vol. 30(2), 173-193. doi>
  • Bruce S. 2007. Illusions of Absence: Disappearances, Displacements and the Limits of Responsibility in The Winter's Tale and The Remains of the Day. Intermedialites, vol. 10, 77-94.
  • Bruce S, Jones K, McLean M. 2007. Some Notes on a Project: Democracy and Authority in the Production of a Discipline. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Cultur, vol. 7(3), 481-500.
  • BRUCE SE. 2005. 'Sympathy for the dead: (g)hosts, hostilities and mediums in Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others"'. Discourse, vol. 27(2-3), 21-40. doi>
  • Bruce S. 2003. Mamillius and Leontes: Their Final Exchange. ANQ, A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, vol. 16(3), 9-12.
  • Bruce SE. ‘Reason, Belief and Mortality in Thomas More's Utopia.’. Philological Quarterly: devoted to scholarly investigation of the classical and modern languages and literatures, vol. 75, 267-286.
  • Bruce SE. FORTHCOMING: ‘Instruments for Thinking With’: A Utopian Dialectic. College Literature.
  • Bruce S. Shakespeare: Comedies and Late Plays. This Year's Work in English Studies, vol. 79, 277-282.

Chapters

  • Bruce SE. 2012. Utopia: Colonialists, Refugees and the Nature of Sufficiency. In Utopian Moments. Davis JC, 's MA, Avilés M (Eds.). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Bruce S. 2007. 'Shakespeare: The Comedies'. Andrew H and Lisa J (Eds.). Palgrave.
  • Bruce S. 2007. 'There's none/Can truly say he gives, if he receives'. Timon of Athens and the possibilities of generosity, or, the gift of a stranger. Wagner V and Bruce S (Eds.). Palgrave.
  • Bruce SE. 1997. ‘Virgins of the World and Feasts of the Family: Sex and the Social Order in Two Renaissance Utopias,’. In English Renaissance Prose: History, Language and Politics. Tempe Arizona: MRTS.