Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and Professor of English
University of Richmond

Elizabeth Outka is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Richmond. A University Distinguished Educator and a University Distinguished Scholar, she is an internationally recognized writer and speaker on twentieth-century literature. Her first book, “Consuming Traditions” inaugurated Oxford’s Modernist Literature and Cultures series. Her latest monograph, “Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature,” won the Transatlantic Studies Association-Cambridge University Press Book Prize, the South Atlantic MLA Book Award and was short-listed for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. An award-winning teacher, she is the recipient of numerous grants, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her essays have appeared in “Modernism/modernity,” “NOVEL,” “Contemporary Literature,” “The Paris Review Daily,” “The Washington Post” and many edited collections. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

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