Elizabeth Sheehan

Elizabeth Sheehan is an Associate Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. Her research spans twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literatures, feminist theory, race and ethnicity studies, periodical studies, and fashion studies. She is currently working on a monograph about anticolonial writers' engagement with peace as both fiction and material practice during the Cold War, alongside an essay exploring 'whisper networks' as anti-harassment strategies.

• PhD from University of Virginia
• BA in English from Yale University

Her 2018 book Modernism à la Mode examines fashion's role in shaping modernist aesthetics and politics. She co-edited Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion (2011) and serves as co-editor for the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Her recent essays analyze intersections of fashion, peace prizes, and Black beauty culture in publications like Modern Fiction Studies and ASAP/J.

Sheehan's work demonstrates a recurring interest in how marginalized voices use fashion and periodicals to challenge institutionalized archives, particularly regarding Black femininity and trauma. Her collaborations with Megan Ward explore character construction as archival practice in contemporary fiction.