Meet Amy Elliot
Assistant Teaching Professor, English and Writing
Phone: (813) 257-3915
Email: aelliot@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: R
Building:
BAS
Room: 105G
Education
2009 University of Notre Dame, B.A.
2011 University of Missouri - St. Louis, M.Ed.
2014 Purdue University, M.A.
2019 Purdue University, Ph.D.
Career Specialties
Amy Elliot's research focuses on 19th-century British literature, Victorian novels, women's writing and children's literature.
Professional and Community Activities
Elliot's article "Girls on the High Seas: Piratical Play in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons" appeared in The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature in 2018, and her article "Power in Our Words: Finding Community and Mitigating Trauma in James Dashner's The Maze Runner" was published in Children's Literature Association Quarterly in 2015. She is a member of the Children's Literature Association (ChLA), the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCS), the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). She served as NAVSA's administrative assistant for five years. Currently, she is an administrative director for COVE: The Central Online Victorian Educator (https://editions.covecollective.org/) to publish digital peer-reviewed scholarship and to create digital teaching tools for scholars.Honors and Awards
Purdue University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Without Walls Fellow, 2015