Author Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno

Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno

Sue Norton is a lecturer of English in the Dublin Institute of Technology. Her PhD (UCD, 2001) was on representations of family in contemporary American fiction. She has published several sections of her dissertation, two, notably, on John Updike (The John Updike Review 2014 and The Explicator 2013). She teaches general English Studies including American literature, Creative Writing, Composition, and Applied Grammar. She also writes outside of academia, in particular general essays for a wide readership. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is the author of a number of books in Camden House’s Literary Criticism in Perspective Series including Becoming John Updike (2013) and the more recent The Critics and Hemingway (2015). He is editor of Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature (Rowman & Littlefield 2014), and, with Ronald D. Morrison, Victorian Writers and the Environment: Ecocritical Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming in 2017). He has published many reference essays and book reviews, and has served on the editorial staff of Nineteenth Century Prose and its predecessor, The Arnoldian, since 1982.

Thirty-Six-Point Perpetua: John Updike’s Personal Essays in the Later Years

Sue Norton and Laurence W. Mazzeno

Articles

Laurence W. Mazzeno (Alvernia University) Sue Norton (Dublin Institute of Technology) Posterity In his Preface to Due Considerations (2007), John Updike tells us that when he was a very young... Read More...

The Shock of Recognition: Reading American Fiction in Celtic Tiger Ireland

Some Comments on Irish American Studies

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

On Becoming an Americanist

The Long Civil Rights Narrative of Show Me a Hero

A Conflict-Laden Consensus: Is the U.S. a One-Party System in Disguise?

The Underground Frontier: Norman Mailer’s An American Dream

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East

Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

Review: Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds., European Perspectives on John Updike

Thirty-Six-Point Perpetua: John Updike’s Personal Essays in the Later Years