Elizabeth Bobo
- Faculty
- Associate Professor of English
- 337-482-5509
- elizabeth.bobo@louisiana.edu
- Griffin Hall, Room 248
Biography
Winner of a Board of Regents Awards Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS) Grant, Dr. Bobo has published articles on Milton, Dryden, and Donne.
She has presented conference papers on the Jacob Tonson publishing dynasty, Poets鈥 Corner in Westminster Abbey, the publications of early modern women writers, the first English translation of the Quran, advertising in London newspapers, and book formats (from luxury folios to illustrated pocket books) as tools for marketing, instructing readers, and national canon formation.
As Chair of the Distance Learning Committee, she developed and coordinates the Online Teaching Mentorship Program, through which graduate students gain experience and certification; she has given conference presentations and workshops on digital pedagogies.
She has taught the cultural productions of Latino/a writers and artists, Arabic Muslim writers and artists, and African American writers and artists, as well as composition and humanities. Most recently she developed a unit on the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn. She is currently developing courses titled 鈥淪panish & English Renaissance Literature鈥 for Spring 2019 and 鈥淔undamentalism & Reform in Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity & Islam鈥 for Fall 2019.
Education
Ph.D. in English, 2005
Claremont Graduate University
Student Research/Collaboration
- Early Modern English Literature
- Reception of Shakespeare, Donne, & Milton, Women Writers
- Canon Formation
- Humanities
- Global Cultural Studies
- Digital Pedagogies
- Diversity in Higher Education
Publications
- 鈥淪pectator Advertising, Popular London Theater, and Paradise Lost as English Cultural Identity.鈥 In Spectacle, Sex and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Ed. Julie Chappell and Kamille Stanton. New York: AMS Press, 2016. 3-20.
- 鈥淭he State of Innocence and Paradise Lost: The Politics of Adaptation.鈥 In Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden. Ed. Lisa Zunshine and Jayne Lewis. New York: MLA Press, 2013. 140-145.
- 鈥溾楥haf鈥檇 Muscatts Pores鈥: The Not-So- Good Mistress in Donne鈥檚 鈥楾he Comparison.鈥欌 ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 25.3 (2012) 168-174.
- 鈥淧aradise Lost for the Pocket: The 1711 Index and the English Canon.鈥 Discoveries: Online Publication of the SCRC 28.1 (2011)