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Biography
Dr. Elizabeth Dill teaches writing and literature courses at Kingsborough Community College as well as a course on dissertation writing at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Writing Center. She lives and writes in Brooklyn.
Courses
Composition I
Introduction to Literature
Short Fiction
Women and Literature
Gothic and Horror Fiction
Literature and Sexuality
Writing the Dissertation
Education
SUNY Buffalo, Ph.D., English
Wells College, B.A., English
Selected Publications and/or Other Resources
Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
“Angel of the House, Ghost of the Commune: Zenobia as Sentimental Woman in The Blithedale Romance.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 37.1 (Spring 2011): 62-87.
“James's Gothic in THE TURN OF THE SCREW.” The Explicator, 69.2 (2011): 64–67.
Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Women and Death in Nineteenth Century America. Eds. Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein. New Castle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
“That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-Novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre.” American Literature, 80.4 (2008): 707-738.
“A Mob of Lusty Villagers: Operations of Domestic Desires in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 15.2 (January 2003): 255-279.
“The Republican Stepmother: Revolution and Sensibility in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland.” The Eighteenth-Century Novel, 2 (2002): 273-303.
Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants
OER Grant, Open Literatures Project, CUNY, 2022
William P. Kelly Research Fellowship, CUNY, 2020-2021
PSC CUNY Research Foundation Grant, “Feminist Agency and the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Feeling,” 2016.
PSC CUNY Research Foundation Grant, “Harriet Jacobs and the Selfhoods of American Identity,” 2006.
PSC CUNY Research Foundation Grant, “The Feminine and the Martyr in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance,” 2005.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Seminar Member, Cultural Stress from Reformation to Revolution, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003.
Institutional Affiliations/Professional Societies
Caribbean Studies Association
Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
C19
Society for Early Americanists
Research Interests
Eary Atlantic literatures, gender and sexuality studies, writing pedagogy.
Personal Interests
Books, cats, reading thrillers in Spanish.
Related Links
Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebelllum Novel