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Biography

Elizabeth Anderson holds a PhD in Literature, Theology and the Arts and English Literature (2011) and a MLitt in Modernities (2007) from the University of Glasgow and a BA in English from Kenyon College (2001). She held a research fellowship at the University of Stirling before taking up a post as Lecturer in English Studies at the 51cg in 2017.

Research Overview

My primary research area is modern and contemporary women's writing, religion and spirituality and feminist theory.

I also have a teaching and research interest in anglophone children's literature (mid-nineteenth century to the present).

I would welcome enquires to supervise phd students in the following areas: modernism, late nineteenth and twentieth century women's writing, feminist theory, children's literature, life-writing, literature and religion.

Current Research

My recent research project explored spirituality and things in the work of four modernist women writers: Mary Butts, Virginia Woolf, H.D. and Gwendolyn Brooks. I am currently working on a project on women writers, everyday spirituality and place.

Teaching Responsibilities

I teach on the following courses:

EL1513 Controversial Classics

EL1536 Rethinking Reading

EL30FF Modernism: Make it New

EL30/35JS Anglo-American Children's Literature

EL40/45JA Wandering Women: Literature, Place and Environment

I also contribute to the MLitts in Literatures, Environments and Places and English Language and Literature.