Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

• Research areas and interests: Early American literature, Atlantic colonialism, the early novel, feminist theory, political theory, aesthetics, transatlantic print culture, Caribbean literature, and early American drama.
• Selected publications: The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford University Press, 2004); currently completing the manuscript for New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660-1850 that will be published by Duke University Press; co-editing, with Michael Drexler, a volume of essays on early American culture and the Haitian Revolution.
• Honors: Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication in the humanities at Yale University in 2003; Society of Early Americanists Essay Prize in 2005.