Sue Norton
Lecturer of English
Email: susan.norton@tudublin.ie
Tel: 01 2205490
BSc, Seton Hall University; M.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D, University College Dublin.
Sue Norton’s teaching areas include American literature, creative writing, academic writing, and writing for professional purposes.
Sue is a Consulting Editor for Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Routledge) and has co-edited two scholarly collections, one on John Updike (Camden House 2018) and the other on American fiction in the European classroom (Palgrave 2022). She is working on a third about aging and literary representation (Palgrave 2025).
Sue's research also focuses on reading and writing strategies in the arts and humanities for undergraduate students. See:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27069275
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jaal.1246
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-94166-6_18
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13683500.2020.1831447
She contributes to the long-standing Critical Insights series, which provides scholarly analyses of popular literary works (Salem Press), and was Associate Editor for McFarland's Companions to 19th Century Literature (2018-2022).
Sue has served as Chair of the School Research Committee and as elected staff representative on Faculty Board and Academic Council. She was as an external examiner for Humanities programmes at IADT and DkIT from 2019 until 2023.
Sue is the inaugural winner of the John Updike Tucson Casitas Fellowship, 2024.
She welcomes doctoral proposals on American fiction and nonfiction.