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Ellen Rooney

Professor of Modern Culture & Media, English, and Gender Studies

Office: 155 George St., Rm. 105
Phone: (401) 863-2152

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 1900I - S01: Critical Methodologies: Contemporary Literary Theory -- CRN 14978

  Sem II:
  •   MCM 2310G: Cultural Studies and the Problem of Form -- (ENGL 2900I) CRN 25038

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Degrees
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1986
M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, 1983
B.A. Wesleyan University, 1979

Research Interests
Literary and semiotic theory; the novel, feminist theory and gender studies; marxism and cultural theory

Professional Accomplishments
Rooney is the author of Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.   She is Co-editor of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and Associate Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and she serves on the Editorial Board of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.

Ellen Rooney