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Elizabeth Klimasmith

Title: Professor

Phone: 617.287.6760

Email: Betsy.Klimasmith@umb.edu

Department: English

Areas of Expertise

American Literature and Culture: Early Republic through the early twentieth century, urban literature, women writers, pedagogy

Degrees

PhD, English, University of Washington, 2000
MA, English, University of New Hampshire, 1995
BA, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 1991

Professional Publications & Contributions

Additional Information

  • Director, UMB High-Impact Humanities Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Humanities
  • Associate Editor, The New England Quarterly

Teaching Interests

  • American Literature and Culture: Early Republic through the early twentieth century.
  • Urban literature, women writers, literature and architecture, pedagogy.

Major Fellowships

  • Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2008.
  • Faculty Fulbright Scholar, Czech Republic, 2006-7.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 2002-3.

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