Dr. Elisabeth Gruner
Associate Professor of English Research and Teaching Interests:
303C Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8298
Fax: (804) 289-8313
http://blog.richmond.edu/gruner
Children's and Young Adult Literature
Fantasy Fiction
Fairy Tales and Retellings
Victorian Fiction and the Family
Women and Literature
The Novel
Education:
Ph.D. in English, University of California-Los Angeles, 1992
Selected Publications:
"Short Fiction by Women in the Victorian Literature Survey," Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900, Joanne Moskal and Shannon R. Wooden, eds., New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Pgs. 101-109.
"Saving Cinderella: History and Story in Ever After and Ashpet." Children's Literature 31 (2003), 142-154.
"Born and Made: Sisters, Brothers, and the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill," SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 24:2 (Winter 1999), 423-447
"Cinderella, Marie Antoinette, and Sara: Roles and Role Models in A Little Princess," The Lion and the Unicorn, 22:2 (Spring 1998), 163-187
"Plotting the Mother: Caroline Norton, Helen Huntingdon, and Isabel Vane," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,16:2 (Fall 1997), 303-325
Journalism and Creative Nonfiction:
I write a monthly column on children's literature for the online magazine, LiteraryMama.com and a weekly blog for Inside Higher Education's Mama, Ph.D. blog, Mothering at Mid-Career. I have also written for Brain, Child magazine and have essays in a variety of anthologies.