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Julia Elliott, Ph.D.
| Title: | Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, English |
| Department: | Palmetto Programs Palmetto College |
| Email: | jelliott@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-777-9356 |
| Fax: | 803-777-9357 |
| Office: | 901 Sumter Street Byrnes Building 302I Columbia, SC 29208 |
Background
Julia Elliott is the author of the story collection Hellions, winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and a Southern Book Prize finalist. Her collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, was chosen by Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Electric Literature as one of the Best Books of 2014. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Reactor, Granta, and The New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and two Pushcart Prizes, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories.
Current Research and/or Teaching Interests
Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Occult Surrealism, Monster Theory, Gender and Monstrosity in Horror Films
Courses Taught
SCHC485-H01, Honors Proseminar, Monstrous Mothers, Diabolical Daughters, and Femme
Fatales: Gender and Monstrosity in Horror Films
WGST 112, Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGST 304, Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality