Professor

Morton Hall 130
910.962.3764
ellerbyj@uncw.edu

Janet Mason Ellerby is Professor of English and the Interim Director of the Women's Resource Center and Women's Studies Minor. She is currently at work on a new book with the working title, "Embroidering the Scarlet 'A': Birthmothers in American Literature."

ENG 387: History of Literary Criticism and Theory

ENG 502: Introduction to Literary Theory

Also classes in Modernism, particularly Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

• Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2007.

• “Bearing Sorrow: A Birthmother’s Reflection on Choice.” Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, & Abortion. Eds. Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2007. 53-67.

• “Untangling the Trauma Knot: Autoethnography and Annie Ernaux’s Shame.” Mosaic 38.3 (2005): 59-75.

• “Emotion and Intimacy in the Classroom.” Tikkun 19.3 (2004): 62-64.

• Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women's Memoir. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2001.