Elizabeth Fekete Trubey

Senior Lecturer in English & WCAS Advisor

1908 Sheridan Road
Telephone: (847) 491-8916
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: eft@northwestern.edu

Elizabeth Fekete Trubey (Ph.D. 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.

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