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Elizabeth Grubgeld
Professor
PhD, The University of Iowa
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Modern British and Irish literature
- Autobiography
- Disability Studies
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- Literature and Disability Studies
- Reading and Writing Autobiography
- 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.)
"Refiguring the Masculine Body in the Autobiographies of Disabled American Men." Forthcoming in Autobiography and the Body. Ed. Christopher Stuart. NY: Cambridge Scholars Press.
"Body, Privacy, and Community: Reading Disability in the Late Fiction of Andre Dubus." Religion and Literature 38.3 ( 2007): 33-53.
“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.
- 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
Invited Plenary Lecture, American Conference for Irish Studies West, University of New Mexico, October 2008.
Invited Plenary Lecture, International George Moore Society, Universiy of Hull, September 2008.
"A Dangerous Harbor: Walker Percy, Andre Dubus, and the Problem of Marriage." American Literature Association, May 2008.
Current Research & Projects
I am currently finishing two essays: one concerning the place of the body in modern Irish autobiography and another addressing the function of gossip in George Moore's 1911-13 memoir, Hail and Farewell.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, OK 74078
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