Mary Ellis Gibson

Mary Ellis Gibson is the Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of Literature at Colby College. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina. Her research focuses on colonial and postcolonial Anglophone poetry, print culture in India, and transnational literary networks in the British Empire.

• Education: Ph.D. & M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., University of North Carolina
• Current Courses: Foundations of Literary Studies, British Novel from Austen to Woolf, Sonnets: History, Theory, and Practice, Seminar: The Brontes in Context

Her publications include Indian Angles: English Language Poetry in India from Jones to Tagore (2011) and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913 (2011). She is currently editing a collection of 19th-century Indian science fiction and a biographical study of British poets in India. Gibson co-founded the Glasgow/Calcutta project on Scottish Enlightenment legacies and co-edits the Celo Knob Press, producing artisanal poetry broadsides. She has received support from the British Academy and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.