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.

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Courses Taught

Writing and Inquiry
Writing and Research
British Literature II
Where Have We Been?

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, 2018
Purdue Research Foundation Summer Research Grant, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Without Walls Fellow, 2015