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Elizabeth F. Evans is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Previously, she held academic positions including Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University, and visiting roles at institutions like the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on British and Anglophone literature, with emphases on modernism, cultural geography, gender studies, and digital humanities methods. Key projects include Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London (2019) and ongoing collaborations with the NEH-sponsored Textual Geographies project, applying computational methods to analyze cultural geography in literary corpora.
Her work explores intersections of gender, race, and urban space in literary contexts, including studies of C.L.R. James, Duse Mohamed Ali, and Yoshio Markino. She is also advancing research on air power’s impact on literary perspectives. Evans holds editorial roles for The Space Between journal and the Modernist Studies Association, reflecting her leadership in academic communities. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges traditional literary analysis with digital scholarship, emphasizing spatial narratives and transnational frameworks.
Recent projects include a co-authored book on gender and literary geography (Cambridge UP, 2025) and an edited volume on Space and Literary Studies in the Cambridge Critical Concepts series. Her work has appeared in journals like ELH, Modernism/modernity, and Cultural Analytics.
