Elizabeth Shand

Degrees
2012, BA in English and Correlate in Art History, Vassar College
Bio
My research stitches together questions from media studies, book history, and Victorian criticism. I am interested in the shifting relationships between print’s material and textual uses, particularly as it responds to new technologies of the book in the nineteenth century. In my research and teaching, I privilege diverse methods of critical agency. To this end, I engage with interdisciplinary approaches from material studies, book history, digital humanities, and literary criticism.
Publications:
- Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- “The Critical Insurgency of Austen’s Suffrage Afterlife: ‘I hope I shall not be accused of pride and prejudice,’” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, forthcoming.
- “Enfolded Narrative in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Refusing ‘a perfect work of art’, Brontë Studies (forthcoming)
- “Women’s Reading as Protest in Gissing’s The Odd Women: ‘I’ll see how I like this first,’” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 62:1 (2019): 53-71.
Reference Articles
- “Helen Blackburn,” Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing, eds. Emily Morris and Lesa Scholl, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
Teaching Awards
- Doris Betts Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2017-2018
Awards
- Elsie Van Dyck Dewitt Scholarship Fund Fellowship (2018/2019)
- Rare Book School Director’s Fellowship (2018)
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute Course Fellowship (2018)
- North American Victorian Studies Association Travel Grant (2017)
- Digital Literacy Initiative Fellow (2017)
- Digital Literacy Curricular Development Fellowship (2017)
- The Robert M. and Janet Lumiansky Graduate Student Excellence Fund in English (2016)
- W. Bruce Lea Jr. Graduate Fund in English (2016)
- Ford Scholar, Vassar College (2010)