Elizabeth Covington
Principal Senior Lecturer
Associate Director, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Elizabeth Covington earned her PhD in English literature from Vanderbilt. She is currently working on a book about experimental psychological theories of memory and the emergence of modernist literature in Britain.
Representative publications
- Stambaugh, T., Covington, E., & Mofield, E. L. (2025). "Crafting Expertise: Developing Talent in English Language Arts." Gifted Child Quarterly 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862241307659
- “The Politics of My Cleavage,” Salon, January 12, 2020
- “An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce,” New York Times, November 26, 2017
- “The Return of the Soldier and Re-appropriated Memories,” Journal of Modern Literature 37:3, 2014
- Entry on “Storm Jameson.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2014
- “Splitting the Husk: The Day Novel and Storm Jameson’s A Day Off,” Genre 46:3, 2013
Awards
- Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow, 2023-2024
- Dean’s Distinguished VUceptor Award, 2023
- College of Arts and Science Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching, December 2019