Elizabeth Starr

Elizabeth Starr is a Professor in the Department of English at Westfield State University, specializing in 19th-century British literature and narrative theory. She teaches courses on the history of the novel, British literature, and writing, and serves as an advisor for the university’s Sigma Tau Delta English honor society chapter.

Education:

• Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001)
• M.A. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995)
• B.A. in English, University of Houston (1992)

Her research focuses on Victorian social-problem novels, examining how authors and narrators project themselves onto urban industrial landscapes and engage with 19th-century debates about labor and profession. She also explores narrative spaces in novels, short fiction, and illness narratives.

Her publications analyze works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, emphasizing intersections of industry, aesthetics, and social change in journals like Texas Studies in Literature and Language and Nineteenth-Century Literature.