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Katherine Ellis
Professor of English
Director of Graduate Program
Contact Information
Office: 36 Union Street, 214
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: ekatellis@yahoo.com
Telephone: (732) 932-9232
Office Hours:

Mondays and Wednesdays

4:30-5:50 p.m.

and by appointment

Specialization
Genre theory as it applies to the Gothic, to "romance" and to first-person writing.
Biography

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia; M.F.A., New School for Social Research

Professor Ellis is the author of Crossing Borders: A Memoir (University Press of Florida, 2001), and she is currently working on a sequel entitled Thank You for Yesterday.  She is also the author of The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (University of Illinois Press, 1989), and of essays on 18th- and 20th-century women's writing.  Her current research interests are in the theories and practices of first-person non-fiction writing.

Publications
Crossing Borders: A Memoir The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
Undergraduate Courses Taught

Principles of Literary Study

The Gothic Novel

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

Women Writers and the Rise of the Novel

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Autobiography By Women

Romance as a Genre

Creative Writing

 
 
 
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