Department of Language and Literature

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Elizabeth Kubek
Department Chair
Associate Professor (Literature)
Kindlon 268
ekubek@ben.edu
office | 630.829.6257
fax | 630.960.4805
office hours (fall 2008) |
MW 12:30-3:00 pm; R 11 am-12 pm
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Education
Ph.D., University of Rochester | 1989
M.A., University of Rochester | 1985
B.A., Clark University | 1984
Selected Publications and Presentations
“Learn to Value Virtue: Mary Pix and Progressive Ideology.” Approaches to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Eds. Catherine Burroughs and Bonnie Nelson. New York: MLA. [forthcoming]
“Dropping the Handkerchief: Rycaut's Histories, Mary Pix's Ibrahim, and the Imaginary Ottoman in Late Stuart England.” 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Atlanta, GA (March 2007)
“The Book as Threat and Trauma: John Dunton's The Night-Walker.” 20th Annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies: Tampa, FL (February 2006).
“The Man Machine: Horror and the Phallus in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.” Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and its Influence. Eds. Alan Jackson and Patsy Fowlers. New York: AMS Press, 2003. 173-197.
“The Key to Stowe: Patriot Whig Discourse in Eliza Haywood's Eovaai.” Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early Modern Culture. Ed. Christopher Mounsey. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2001. 225-254.
"Archaeology of the Present: The Mother as Repository of History in Modern Fictions.” 8th Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies: New Orleans, LA (November 2000).
“Passage into New Forms: Patriarchy, Ritual, and Violence in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and Edgar Huntley.” 29th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Mackinaw City, MI (October 1998).
“Spent for Us: Capra's Technologies of Mastery in Lady for a Day.” Journal of Film and Video 50.2 (1998): 40-57.
“You Only Expose Your Father: The Imaginary, Voyeurism, and the Symbolic Order in The X-Files.” “Deny All Knowledge”: Reading The X-Files. Eds. David Lavery, et al. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1996. 168-204.
Courses Taught
LITR 263 | Literature of the Early Modern Period
LITR 265 | Shakespeare
LITR 281 | Gender and Literature
LITR 305 | Critical Theory
LITR 307 | Modern English
LITR 360 | Modern Poetry
LITR 381 | Theories of Gender in Literary Analysis
LITR 399 | Senior Seminar
RHET 103 | Person in Community: Writing Seminar
