Sue Norton, Lecturer of English in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Technological University Dublin, Ireland, has accepted an invitation to join The John Updike Society Board of Directors. Her appointment is effective immediately.
Sue has the distinction of having been named the first Updike Tucson Casitas Fellow (Project: “Somewhere Between Feminism and Misogyny: Classic Updike on the Modern Syllabus”). Her work has appeared in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing, The Irish Journal of American Studies, The John Updike Review, The Explicator, and other books and journals. She has co-edited two volumes of essays with Laurence W. Mazzeno: Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and European Perspectives on John Updike (Camden House, 2018).
“Sue has been an important voice in Updike studies,” society president James Plath said. “She has presented papers on Updike at numerous conferences and has become a valued colleague in the process. Sue has shown a willingness to become more involved and to contribute ideas to make the society stronger, and we’re very fortunate and quite happy that she’s agreed to serve on the board,” Plath said.
Sue came to Updike studies through her doctoral work on family in contemporary American fiction, which she completed in 2001 at University College Dublin. She has been a member of the Updike Society since 2016.
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