Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: 
Email: elizabeth.s.meadows@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• M.A. Vanderbilt University, 2006
• Master's of English Education, City College of the City University of New York, 2005
• Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, summa cum laude, Columbia University, 2001

Research Area

• Victorian literature and culture

Current Research

• Morbid Strains: Obsession and Spectacle in Victorian Literature from In Memoriam to The Picture of Dorian Gray (dissertation in progress)

Current Courses

• Fa10, Engl 118W: Death and Taxes
• Su10, Engl 100W: Sustainable Arguments
• Sp09, Engl 102W: Literary Analysis, Frame Narratives, and Ekphrasis
• Fa08, Engl 100W: Food Fights
• Fa07/Sp08, Engl 102W: For Love and Money
• Fa06/Sp07, Engl 102W: Identity Theft

Current Positions

• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Graduate Student Fellow 2009-2010

Previous Positions

• Graduate instructor
• Conference organizer, 2009 Dickens Project Winter Conference
• Co-facilitator, 19th-century reading group, 2007-2009
• Research assistant - Carolyn Dever, 2007-2009
• Social co-chair, English Graduate Student Association, 2006-2008

Professional Societies

• Modern Language Association
• North American Victorian Studies Association

Professional Honors

• College of Arts and Science Summer Research Award, 2009
• Drake Scholar Award, 2009
• Robert Manson Myers Graduate Award in English, 2009
• Rose Alley Press Achievement Award in English Studies, 2007
• John Angus Burrell Memorial Prize, Columbia University 2001
• Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University