Elizabeth Alsop graduated magna cum laude in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 2001, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. Elizabeth's primary academic interests are in 20th Century English, French, and Italian literatures, particularly Modernist fiction, and in intersections between realism and modernism. Her undergraduate thesis, a comparative study of James Joyce and Carlo Emilio Gadda, was chosen for departmental distinction. She works primarily on the novel, and
is fascinated by representations of the everyday in both literary
narrative and film. As a candidate in the Film Studies Certificate
Program, Elizabeth has most recently worked on French avant-garde cinema, focusing on questions of time and duration. A former food writer, Elizabeth also maintains an active interest in culinary history, and is completing research on a WPA-era project on American regional foodways. She currently teaches World Literature at Queens College.

Areas of Interest

20th Century literature; Modernism; Theories of the Novel; Film and Media Studies

Languages

English, Italian, French

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