Over the years and many roads, Judith Roof has worked as a mail room clerk, a machinist, a laundry worker, a factory worker, a hospital admissions registrar, a French teacher, a lawyer, an English and film professor at five universities, an artist and illustrator, and finally a fiction writer.
Now retired, she was the William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. In 2016, she served as Chaire des Amériques at Université Rennes 2. She received a B.A. in French, a J.D., and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University as well as an MA in French from the University of Toronto.
She is the author of eight monographs, eight edited (or coedited) books, and more than eighty essays on topics related to literature, modern drama, narrative theory, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, film studies, and critical legal studies.
Her nonfiction books include Tone: Writing and the Sound of Feeling (Bloomsbury Press, 2020), The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present (Bloomsbury Press, 2018), What Gender Is, What Gender Does (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), The Poetics of DNA (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels (University of Illinois Press, 2002), Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change (Routledge, 1997), Come as You Are: Sexuality and Narrative (Columbia University Press, 1996), and A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory (Columbia University Press, 1991).
Fiction Books by Judith Roof
Nonfiction Books by Judith Roof
