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Elizabeth Gargano

English
adolescent literature
angela carter
children's literature
culture
feminist theory
literature
victorian culture
victorian literature
women’s literature
writing about literature
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Erin Eldridge
Aaron Toscano
Daniel Grano
Gretchen Alterowitz
Jim Frakes
Ann Dils
Betsy West
David Gall
Sangkil Moon
Paula Connolly
Eric Hoenes
Maria Delgadillo Latorre
Lynne Conner
Rachel Engstrom
Alan Rauch
Emily Makas
Paula Eckard
Joyce Dalsheim
Juan Meneses Naranjo
Nicole Peterson
Balaka Basu
Robin James
Andrew Hartley
Elizabeth Yoder
Mark West
Lynn Raymond
Lisa Homann
Reginald Raymer
Jeffrey Leak
Jill Yavorsky
Gregory Starrett
Ashli Stokes

ENGL_garganoEducation

  • Ph.D. University of Virginia, May 2002
  • M.F.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987
  • M.A. University of Pittsburgh, January 1982
  • B.A. University of Pittsburg, 1979

Areas of Interest

  • Victorian literature and culture
  • Children’s literature
  • The novel
  • Women’s Literature and Feminist Theory

Selected Publications and Presentations

Book
Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming Fall 2007

Recent Articles
“The Masquerader in the Garden: Gender and the Body in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop.” Women’s Studies 36 (2007): 1-22.

“English ‘Sheiks’ and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48:2 (Summer 2006): 170-185.

“Oral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 31:1(Spring 2006): 27-39.

“Death by Learning: Zymosis and the Perils of School in E. J. May’s Dashwood Priory.” Children’s Literature. 33 (2005): 1-19.

“The Education of Bronte’s New Nouvelle Heloise in Shirley.” SEL: Studies in English Literature 44: 4 (Autumn 2004): 779-803.

Conference Presentations
“Distraction and Destruction in Back to Baghdad: Images of Iraq in a Current Videogame.” The Children’s Literature Association Conference, Newport News, VA, June 16, 2007.

“The Schoolmaster’s Nightmare: Linear and Errant Trains of Thought in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 2006.

“Reading the Labyrinth: Anonymity and the Urban Professional in The Sign of the Four.” The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Cambridge, MA, March 31-April 2, 2005.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • ENGL 2100: Writing About Literature
  • ENGL 3104: Adolescent Literature
  • ENGL 3103: Children’s Literature
  • ENGL 3302: British Literature Survey II
  • ENGL 4050: Childhood and the Novel
  • ENGL 4122: The Victorian Novel
  • ENGL 4102: Classics in British Children’s Literature
  • LBST 2101: Western History and Culture: The Invention of Childhood

Graduate Courses

  • ENGL 5050: Childhood and the Novel
  • ENGL 5102: Classics in British Children’s Literature
  • ENGL 5122: The Victorian Novel
  • ENGL 6080: Women and the Novel.
  • ENGL 6101: Introduction to Graduate Studies
  • ENGL 6103: Worlds of Juvenile Literature

Professional Appointments

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
  • Department of English
  • Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-present

Awards

  • Fellowship in Literature for Fiction, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ($5000), 1997
  • Recipient, Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry, Pittsburgh Quarterly, 1996
  • Recipient, The Willow Review Annual Prize for Fiction, 1993

Community Service

  • Judge for Central Piedmont Community College Student Poetry Contest, Fall 2003.
  • “The Work of a University Professor”: a lecture presented at The Canon School, Concord NC, Spring 2003.
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