Professor of English, Modern Culture and Media, and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Brown University

Ellen Rooney is Professor of English, Modern Culture and Media, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brown University.  Rooney is the author of Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory, and she is Co-editor of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies and Associate Editor of Novel: a forum on fiction. Her current research project, The Reading Effect and the Persistence of Form, addresses contemporary debates on the theory and practice of reading, the critique of critique, and the return of formalisms to literary and cultural studies.

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