 Associate Professor of EnglishOffice: Cottage 209 Telephone: 303-735-3628 E-mail: Elisabeth.Sheffield@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Creative writing (fiction); Joyce and modernism; women's experimental fiction; 20th-century American literature; literary theory, with a focus on feminist and queer theory
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994
M.F.A., University of California at Irvine, 1992
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
B.A., State University of New York at Purchase, 1984
Publications
Books
Fort/Da: A Report. Fiction Collective Two, 2009
Gone (a novel). Fiction Collective Two, 2003
Joyce's Abandoned Female Costumes, Gratefully Received (critical monograph). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Associated University Presses), 1998
Co-ed. and introductory essay, Chick-Lit 2: No Chick Vics. Fiction Collective Two, 1996
Critical essays
“Monster and Critic, Teacher and Writer: A Roundtable Discussion on Difference, Fear and Creation.” Santa Monica Review, 2005
"Snapping Gum in Your Mother's Face: Postfeminism and 'Chick-Lit'." "Writing (Post) Feminism" issue of Electronic Book Review, 1996.
Fiction published in
Pretext 4 (2001); Gargoyle Magazine 43 (2001); Denver Quarterly 35, 3 (2000); 13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine 16, 1-2 (2000); Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (Fiction Collective Two, 1995); Nobodaddies 2 (1995); The Ledge 17 (1994); Gulf Coast 6,2 (1994); Southern Plains Review 1, 2 (1993)
Selected honors and awards
Provost's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work, CU Boulder, 2006
Fulbright Senior Lecturing Fellowship ("Junior Lecturer" category), Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel,1999-2000
Current projects
A novel in progress