Dr S ELIZABETH ANDERSON

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 University of Aberdeen 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.