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Janet Ellerby
Associate Professor
English
Areas of Interest:
The Literary Memoir:
- The Contemporary Memoir (Ellerby's first book is entitled Intimate Reading: The Contemporary Women’s Memoir)
- Confessional Narratives
- Life Writing
- Writing the Memoir
Modernism:
- Virginia Woolf: Her life, her nonfiction, and her fiction
- James Joyce: His life and his fiction
Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.A., California State University
B.S., University of Oregon
Bio:
Location: Morton, 130
Phone: 910/962-3764
Email: ellerbyj@uncw.edu
Elizabeth Ervin
Assistant Professor
English
Areas of Interest:
- “Issues in Feminist Studies”
- History and theory of rhetoric and literacy
- Writing theory and pedagogy
- Women's studies and feminist theory
- English education
- Public and civic discourses
- Research methodologies
- Professional issues
Education:
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.A., Texas Christian University
B.A. in Ed., University of Nebraska at Kearney
Bio:
Location: Morton,163
Phone: 910/962-3650
Email: ervine@uncw.edu
Barbara Frey Waxman
Professor
English
Areas of Interest:
- “New Perspectives on Aging in Contemporary Autobiography or Fiction”
- “Gothic Literature’s Philosophical or Psychological Side”
- “Autobiography From the Margins of Our Culture”
- 19th Century British literature (especially Victorian)
- Women's Studies in literature
- Multicultural literature of the U.S.
- Gothic literature (British and American)
- Autobiography
- Lliterature of aging
- Literary theory
Education:
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of
New York
M.A., City College of New York
B.A., Douglass College
Bio:
Barbara Frey Waxman is a professor of English at The University of North Carolina – Wilmington, where she teaches classes on autobiography, literary theory, Victorian literature, women’s literature, literature about aging, and cross-cultural American literature. She has published two books on the literature of aging, From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature and To Live in the Center of the Moment: Literary Autobiographies of Aging. She also edited a collection of essays, Multicultural Literatures through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses. Dr. Waxman has published essays on such authors as Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Marie Arana, Alice Walker, and Richard Rodriguez. Her essays on the literature of aging have appeared in such journals as The Gerontologist and The South Atlantic Review. An article on teaching cross-cultural aging through literature is forthcoming in the Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Education. Dr. Waxman is currently at work on a book about memoirs of the cross-cultural, bilingual experience.
Location: Morton Hall
132
Phone: 910/962-3334
Email: waxmanb@uncw.edu
