Elizabeth Muther

Associate Professor of English, Chair of English Department

Spring 2008

  • African American Poetry (AFRS 261)
  • Of Comics and Culture (ENG 022)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 401)
  • Advanced Independent Study and Honors in English (ENG 402)
Phone (207) 725-3543
Title Associate Professor
Department ENGLISH
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department ENGLISH
Work Location 303 Massachusetts Hall
E-Mail emuther@bowdoin.edu
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Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989

Teaching areas:

American and African American literature and culture; African American women's literature; the Harlem Renaissance; African American film and literature; contemporary ethnic American literature.

Research interests:

African American modernism; the Harlem Renaissance; twentieth-century African American poetry; contemporary fiction about slavery (neo-slave narratives); African American women's literature.