Dr S ELIZABETH ANDERSON

Dr S ELIZABETH ANDERSON
Dr S ELIZABETH ANDERSON
Dr S ELIZABETH ANDERSON

BA (Kenyon College), MLitt (Glasgow), PhD (Glasgow)

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

About
Email Address
sarahelizabeth.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272645
Office Address

F15, Old Brewery

School/Department
School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

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

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.

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in English.


Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

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English

Supervising
Accepting PhDs

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

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.

Publications

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  • Writing as Sanctuary: Place, Movement and the Sacred in the Work of Hélène Cixous

    Anderson, E.
    Literature and Theology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 364-379
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination: mysticism and writing

    Anderson, E.
    Bloomsbury Academic, London. 192 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Burnt and Blossoming: Material Mysticism in Trilogy and Four Quartets

    Anderson, S. E.
    Christianity & Literature, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 121-142
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Sacred belonging: writing, religion and community in H.D.’s World War II novels

    Anderson, S. E.
    Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 271-286
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • "The Knight’s Move”: Fluidity of Identity and Meaning in Mary Butt’s Armed with Madness

    Anderson, E.
    Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 245-256
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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