Dr. Elizabeth Evans

Biography

Elizabeth F. Evans is a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, with a focus on British Anglophone literature, especially concerning modernism, visuality, and mobility. She is the author of "Threshold Modernism: New Public Women Literary Spaces in Imperial London" (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which examines gendered identities in transitional spaces within British colonial narratives from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Her research argues that the literature of this period, including works by B. M. Malabari and Virginia Woolf, shaped significant debates around women's increasing public presence as workers and pleasure-seekers in urban contexts. Elizabeth's ongoing projects investigate the roles of gender, race, and urban space, particularly through the lens of early twentieth-century migrants of color. She collaborates on the NEH-sponsored Textual Geographies project, employing computational methods to illuminate the cultural geography of Britain across a corpus of 20,000 digitized literary texts. Her forthcoming book explores how the invention of the airplane transformed communication, travel, and imperial control, while also examining the tensions between freedom and limitations presented by aerial views. Additionally, she has held various academic positions, including Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University and Visiting Assistant Professorships at the University of Notre Dame and Wake Forest University.

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