Susan Rudy

Susan Rudy is a writer and academic. Internationally recognised for her work on gender and experimental writing, she is the author or editor of four books and dozens of journal articles, book chapters, special issues, opinion pieces, and reviews. Based in Canada until 2011 when she moved to London, her first poems were published in the 1980s. In 1988, she completed a PhD at Toronto’s York University and took up an academic position at the University of Calgary, where she served until 2016.

She is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of East Anglia, Professor Emerita at the University of Calgary, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London where she volunteers as Director of the Centre for Poetry. In 2018 she founded the Queer Poetics Research Network (QPRN) at Queen Mary, and, in collaboration with Dr Georgina Colby at the University of Westminster in 2016, SALON - LONDON: a site for feminist experiment.

Recent publications include ‘A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice’ in Reading Experimental Writing (2020) and ‘Gender’s Ontoformativity’ (2021) in Feminist Theory. Poetry, creative nonfiction, and public-facing work may be found at Politics/Letters Live, many gendered mothers, and The New Statesman. Work in progress includes Identifying Women, her first book of creative non-fiction.

HIGHLIGHTS

• In addition to her work at Birkbeck, she directs the Centre for Poetry and is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia.

Her books include Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (2005) and Poets Talk (2005), both co-authored with Pauline Butling. Recent publications include ‘A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice’ in Reading Experimental Writing (2020) and ‘Gender’s Ontoformativity: Reclaiming queer women’s solidarity through experimental writing’ (2020) in Feminist Theory.

QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD, York University, 1988
• MA, University of New Brunswick, 1985
• Honours BA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1984

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Director, Centre for Poetry, Queen Mary University of London
• Honorary Professor of English, University of East Anglia
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Modern Languages Association

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures, November 2020
• Invited Fellow, Royal Society for the Encouragment of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, February 2018

Publications

Books

• Butling, Pauline and Susan Rudy. 2005. Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003). Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
• Butling, Pauline, and Susan Rudy. 2005. Poets Talk: Interviews with Marie Annharte Baker, Dionne Brand, Jeff Derksen, Daphne Marlatt, Robert Kroetsch, Erin Mouré, and Fred Wah. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
  
• Rudy, Susan, ed. 2005. Fluid Arguments. By Nicole Brossard. Trans. Nicole Brossard, Anne-Marie Wheeler, Alice Parker, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Patricia Claxton, and Marlene Wildeman. Toronto: Mercury Press.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

• Rudy, Susan. 2022. ‘A reach for what we only hope is there’: Bronwen Wallace’s Writing at the Interval.’ In Bronwen Wallace: Collected Essays. Wanda Campbell. Quebec: Guernica.
• Rudy, Susan. 2021. (Available online early view.) ‘Gender’s Ontoformativity, or Refusing to be Spat out of Reality: Reclaiming Queer Women’s Solidarity Through Experimental Writing.’ Feminist Theory 1. DOI: 1177/1464700119881311.
• Rudy, Susan. 2020. ‘A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall’s Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading.’ In Reading Experimental Writing. Ed. Georgina Colby. Edinburgh University Press. 163-184.Rudy, Susan. 2020. ‘Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah.’ In Moving Archives. Linda M. Morra. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 169-190.
• Hemmings, Clare and Susan Rudy. 2019. ‘I don’t know what gender is, but I can and I do and we all do’: An Interview with Clare Hemmings, Head of the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics. European Journal of Women’s Studies. 2 (May): 1-12. DOI: 10.1177/1350506819833240.