People: Elizabeth Gregory, Director
- Phone: (713) 743-0932
- Email: egregory@uh.edu
- Office: 622 Agnes Arnold Hall
Professor Elizabeth Gregory directs the Women¹s Studies Program at the
University of Houston and is a member of the English Department. She writes
about 20th- and 21st-century poetry, about the dynamics of birth timing, and
about the politics and economics of women¹s work, both in the home and
outside it.
Professor Gregory is the author of Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads'" (1996), which focuses on the work of T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, and editor of The Critical Response to Marianne Moore (2003). She is also the author of articles on modernism, confessional poetry, and Homer's heroines.
Her recent book, Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, from Basic Books (2007), based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 new later moms and extensive collateral research, shatters the myths surrounding later motherhood. Drawing on both the statistical evidence and the voices of the new later mothers themselves, Gregory delivers surprising and welcome news that will revolutionize the way we think about motherhood.
She teaches courses on British and American modernism, contemporary poetry, ancient and classical literature, feminist criticism, cultural criticism and American literature since 1860.
Since 1995, Professor Gregory has been the Director of the Women's Studies Program. As Director, she has expanded the program and developed the Women's Archive and Research Center (WARC) and worked extensively with the Friends
of Women's Studies. The archive component of the WARC collects the papers of Houston area women's organizations and records oral histories of women who have made history in Houston. The research element of the WARC provides scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students, funds a postdoctoral fellowship in Women's Studies, and awards grants for faculty research.
Her current projects explore the dynamics of contemporary birth timing, the
economics and politics of women¹s work of all kinds, and the later poetry of
Marianne Moore.
For more information, visit her website--www.elizabethgregory.net. You can
follow her blog on the politics and economics of women's work at
www.domesticproduct.net and www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-gregory.
Education
- Ph.D., Yale University
- M.A., University of Kentucky
- B.A., Barnard College
Research Interests
Modern American Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry, Modern British Literature, Motherhood Studies, and Gender Theory
Selected Publications
Books
- Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood (New York: Basic Books, December 2007)
- Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads '" (Houston: Rice UP/Texas A&M UP 1996)
Recent Articles
- "Confessing the Body: Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Ginsberg and Berryman",in Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays ed. Jo Gill (New York:
Routledge, 2005), pp. 33-49.
- "'Combat Cultural': Marianne Moore and the Mixed-Brow," in Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: A Right Good Salvo of Barks, ed. Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller and Robin Schulze (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2005), pp. 208-21.
- "Unravelling Penelope: The Construction of the Faithful Wife in Homer’s Heroines", Helios 23, no. 1 (1996): 3-20.
