{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T18:05:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elizabeth-gargano\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elizabeth-gargano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2012\/10\/ENGL_gargano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22\" alt=\"ENGL_gargano\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/elizabeth-gargano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/2012\/10\/ENGL_gargano.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. University of Virginia, May 2002<\/li>\n<li>M.F.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987<\/li>\n<li>M.A. University of Pittsburgh, January 1982<\/li>\n<li>B.A. University of Pittsburg, 1979<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victorian literature and culture<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s literature<\/li>\n<li>The novel<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Literature and Feminist Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Publications and Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book<\/strong><br \/>\nReading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming Fall 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Articles<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe Masquerader in the Garden: Gender and the Body in Angela Carter&#8217;s The Magic Toyshop.\u201d Women&#8217;s Studies 36 (2007): 1-22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnglish \u2018Sheiks&#8217; and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade.\u201d Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48:2 (Summer 2006): 170-185.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOral Narrative and Ojibwa Story Cycles in Louise Erdrich&#8217;s The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence.\u201d Children&#8217;s Literature Association Quarterly 31:1(Spring 2006): 27-39.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeath by Learning: Zymosis and the Perils of School in E. J. May&#8217;s Dashwood Priory.\u201d Children&#8217;s Literature. 33 (2005): 1-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Education of Bronte&#8217;s New Nouvelle Heloise in Shirley.\u201d SEL: Studies in English Literature 44: 4 (Autumn 2004): 779-803.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference Presentations<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cDistraction and Destruction in Back to Baghdad: Images of Iraq in a Current Videogame.\u201d The Children&#8217;s Literature Association Conference, Newport News, VA, June 16, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Schoolmaster&#8217;s Nightmare: Linear and Errant Trains of Thought in Dickens&#8217;s Our Mutual Friend.\u201d The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 4, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading the Labyrinth: Anonymity and the Urban Professional in The Sign of the Four.&#8221; The Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention, Cambridge, MA, March 31-April 2, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Undergraduate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 2100: Writing About Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3104: Adolescent Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3103: Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 3302: British Literature Survey II<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4050: Childhood and the Novel<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4122: The Victorian Novel<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 4102: Classics in British Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>LBST 2101: Western History and Culture: The Invention of Childhood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Graduate Courses<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ENGL 5050: Childhood and the Novel<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 5102: Classics in British Children&#8217;s Literature<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 5122: The Victorian Novel<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6080: Women and the Novel.<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6101: Introduction to Graduate Studies<\/li>\n<li>ENGL 6103: Worlds of Juvenile Literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional Appointments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University of North Carolina\u00a0at\u00a0Charlotte, NC<\/li>\n<li>Department of English<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor, Fall 2002-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellowship in Literature for Fiction, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ($5000), 1997<\/li>\n<li>Recipient, Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry, Pittsburgh Quarterly, 1996<\/li>\n<li>Recipient, The Willow Review Annual Prize for Fiction, 1993<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Community Service <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Judge for Central Piedmont Community College Student Poetry Contest, Fall 2003.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Work of a University Professor\u201d: a lecture presented at The Canon School, Concord NC, Spring 2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education 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\u2019s literature The novel Women&#8217;s Literature and Feminist Theory Selected Publications and Presentations Book Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 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