Elizabeth Antrim
Visiting Instructor in Literature

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Literature

Academic Expertise: Literature

Area of Specialization: 20th-Century American Literature; American Studies

Biography:
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate, Yale University. Areas of interest include 19th- and 20th-century American literature, the American novel since 1925, art history, humanitarianism. Recipient, University Dissertation Fellowship in English and A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship in Art History, Yale University. Previously taught at Yale. (2008– ) Visiting Instructor of Literature.

Interests:

Research Interests: the American novel since 1945; empathy and literature; Africa in American fiction; fiction and humanitarianism; Ayn Rand and American individualism

Teaching Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature; Henry James and Edith Wharton; America in the 1950s; the American short story; Postmodern American literature

Other Interests: Art history and criticism (esp. modern and contemporary); Film studies