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Elizabeth Blake is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University, specializing in gender and sexuality studies, food studies, and global modernist literature. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University (2016), an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago (2009), and a B.A. in English from Reed College (2004). Her research explores queer pleasure in early 20th-century literature and its impact on literary forms. Her first book, Edible Arrangements: Modernism’s Queer Forms, examines how eating scenes in modernist literature embody queer identities. Her second project, Against the Love Plot, analyzes mid-20th-century women’s fiction resisting normative love narratives.
Her courses include Queer Modernisms, Modernist Literature, and Food and Literature in the 20th Century. Her scholarly work spans journals like Modernism/modernity and Journal of Lesbian Studies, focusing on authors such as Gale Wilhelm, Jane Rule, Gertrude Stein, and Alice Toklas. She is affiliated with Clark’s Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS).
Her research trends emphasize intersections between food, queer theory, and modernist forms, with articles analyzing how literature challenges normative structures of love, marriage, and domesticity. Her grants and advising are not explicitly detailed here, but her work highlights innovative interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies.
