Mary Ellis Gibson
Contact Information
E-mail: megibson@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3115
At UNCG Since: 1978
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago-1978
M.A. University of Chicago-1975
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-1974
Research Interests
Dr. Gibson works at the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, British and American modernism, women’s and gender studies, and colonial and post-colonial studies. Her previous book, Ezra Pound and the Victorians, investigated ideas of history, epic and poetics. She is completing two books at the moment: a study of English language poetry in India between 1780 and 1913 and an anthology to accompany the monograph. Both volumes will be published next year by Ohio University Press.
Selected Publications
- Introduction. Separate Journeys: Stories by Contemporary Indian Women Writers. Ed. Geeta Dharmarajan. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004: vii-xxiv.
- Epic Reinvented: Ezra Pound and the Victorians. Ithaca: Cornell University P, 1995.
- Editor. Critical Essays on Robert Browning. New York: G.K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1992.
- Editor, Introduction and bibliographical essay. Homplaces: The South in Fiction by Women Writers. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1991.
- Editor, Introduction and bibliography. New Stories by Southern Women. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1989.
- History and the Prism of Art: Browning’s Poetic Experiments. Columbus: Ohio State University P, 1987.
Awards and Honors
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 2009.
- National Humanities Center, John Sawyer Fellowship, 2007-8.
- Council of Graduate Schools/Ford Foundation, Professional Master’s Program Implementation Grant, PI, 2005-7.
- Fulbright Senior Research Award, India, 2004.
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Research Award, 2003-4 (declined).
- Council of Graduate Schools, Planning Grant for MA Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2004.
- North Carolina Humanities Council Grants, Girls’ Zine, 2003; Seminar for Teachers: Race Gender and Southern Literature, 2004.
- North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, “Real and Imagined Families: Cultural Representation in South Asian/American Contexts,” 2003.
- NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 2003.
- Fulbright Lecturing Award, Taipei, Taiwan, 1991.
