Elizabeth Fekete Trubey
Senior Lecturer of English & WCAS Adviser
Advising: 1908 Sheridan
Telephone: (847) 491-8916
English: University Hall 019
Telephone: (847) 491-0894
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: eft@northwestern.edu
Elizabeth Fekete Trubey (PhD Northwestern University) teaches and writes about early, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on gender and problems of identity. Specifically, she has taught courses on the 1850s, sentimental fiction, early American novels, gender in the 19th century, representations of slavery in the 19th century, women's fiction between the Civil War and World War II, and representations of the Holocaust. Her dissertation, "'I felt like the girls in books': Sentimental Readership in America, 1850-1870," focused on sentimental fiction and nineteenth-century women readers, and she has published articles about Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Evans's St. Elmo. She is currently working on a book about sentimentalism and slavery in the American South, "Poor Women! Poor Slaves!: Sentiment and Slavery in the South." She is also a WCAS Adviser.
