Elizabeth Gargano

Elizabeth Gargano, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (2002), an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1987), an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh (1982), and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh (1979). Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, children’s literature, the novel, women’s literature, and feminist theory.

Her scholarly work includes Reading Victorian Schoolrooms: Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and articles analyzing gender, imperialism, and narrative techniques in works by Angela Carter, E.M. Hull, Louise Erdrich, and Charlotte Bronte. She has received awards such as the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship (1997) and the Sara Henderson Hay Poetry Prize (1996).

Dr. Gargano teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on childhood studies, Victorian literature, women’s literature, and children’s literature. She has served as an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte since 2002 and actively participates in community engagement, including judging poetry contests and delivering lectures on pedagogical themes.