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Elizabeth Grubgeld

Professor
PhD, The University of Iowa


Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Modern British and Irish literature
  • Autobiography

Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught

  • Creative Nonfiction
  • Post Colonial Theory and Irish Literature
  • Memory and Narrative in Contemporary Culture
  • Autobiography by Women
  • Modern British and Irish Fiction

Selected Publications

 

Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004. (Winner of the 2005 Robert Rhodes Prize for Best Book in Irish Literature.)

George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994. (Winner of the 1995 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for Best Book of Literary and Cultural Criticism.)

"Body, Privacy, and Community: Reading Disability in the Late Fiction of Andre Dubus." Forthcoming in Religion and Literature 38.3 ( 2007).

“Irish Life Writing in the Twentieth Century.” The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel. Ed. John Wilson Foster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"Castleleslie.com : Autobiography, Heritage Tourism, and Digital Design"  New Hibernia Review:  Iris Eireannach Nua 10:1 (Spring, 2006). (Winner of the 2007 Roger McHugh prize for Outstanding Article in Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies).

"John Montague's The Dead Kingdom and the Post-War American Elegy." New Hibernia Review/ Iris Eireannach Nua 1.2 (1997): 71-82. Reprinted in The Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague. Ed. Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2004. 276-289.

"Living on the Invisible Palm of God: Andre Dubus and the Ethics of Forceful Resistance." Religion and the Arts 6.1-2 (2001): 29-49.

 

Honors & Offices

  • 2007 Roger McHugh Prize for Outstanding Article in Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies: "Casteleslie.com: Autobiography, Heritage Tourism, and Digital Design."
  • 2005 Robert Rhodes Prize for Best Book in Irish Literature: Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative.
  • 1995 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for Best Book of Literary and Cultural Criticism: George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse: 1994).
  • Amoco Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
  • Past President of the Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies

Recent Grants or Research Trips

  • Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award
  • OHC Awards
  • External Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas

Recent Conference Presentations

 

"George Moore and the Body." (Invited Plenary Lecture, George Moore: Across Borders).

"Tracking the Transvestite Subject: Narrative Labyrinths and Gender Representation in George Moore's "Albert Nobbs" (American Conference for Irish Studies).

“Abusing the Ancestors: The Anglo-Irish Comic Autobiography” (American Conference for Irish Studies)

 

Current Research & Projects

I am currently researching and writing an essay entitled, “Refiguring the Masculine Body in the Autobiographies of Disabled American Men” to be included in the proposed collection, Autobiography and the Body, edited by Christopher Stuart.


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