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Ellen Frances Rooney is Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she also serves as Chair of Modern Culture and Media. She is Co-editor of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, Associate Editor of Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and serves on the Editorial Board of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD (1986) from The Johns Hopkins University
- MA (1983) from The Johns Hopkins University
- BA (1979) from Wesleyan University
Rooney's research centers on feminist literary theory, Victorian studies, and the politics of form. She specializes in George Eliot and Jane Austen scholarship, ideological critique of the novel, and reading practices. Her work bridges cultural studies, literary formalism, and feminist epistemology, with particular attention to how form mediates political consciousness in literary texts. She examines the 'semiprivate' as a conceptual category in pedagogy and criticism.
Her publication trajectory reveals sustained engagement with feminist theory's evolution, Victorian novel criticism, and formalist debates. Recent work emphasizes the persistence of form as a critical category against post-theory trends, while connecting reading practices to contemporary political imperatives. Her scholarship consistently interrogates the relationship between textual analysis and social transformation.
No scientific awards or honors are documented in her professional profile.
Rooney teaches across literary theory, narrative studies, and British literature, including courses on Jane Austen, George Eliot, and reading practices. Her teaching integrates formal analysis with feminist and cultural theory. No funded research projects or student advising relationships are specified in available documentation.
Her professional activities center on editorial leadership in feminist cultural studies rather than laboratory-based research teams.
