Elizabeth Evans

Elizabeth Evans is an Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University, affiliated with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on modernist and postcolonial literature, spatial theory, and digital humanities. She is the author of Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (2019) and coeditor of Woolf and the City (2010). Evans currently leads projects on aerial views in British literature and computational mapping of cultural geographies.

Evans holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006) and has taught courses on women writers, global literatures, and critical theory. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Notre Dame Institute, and the DuBois Foundation. She serves as Program Chair for the Modernist Studies Association and editor for The Space Between journal.

Her research explores intersections of gender, race, and urban space in modernist texts, including studies on C.L.R. James, Duse Mohamed Ali, and Markino Yoshio. Ongoing projects include analyzing air power in literature and mapping literary geographies across 20,000 texts.

Key awards include the NEH Digital Humanities Grant (2016-2018), multiple Notre Dame research grants, and teaching excellence awards from Penn State DuBois and Wake Forest University. Evans collaborates with the Textual Geographies project and focuses on computational methods in literary studies.