Elizabeth Trubey
Assistant Dean for Academic Advising; Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. Northwestern University

- eft@northwestern.edu
- 847-491-8916
- 1908 Sheridan Road
- Office Hours: By appointment; email to schedule
Biography
Elizabeth Trubey (she/her/hers, Ph.D. Northwestern University) is the assistant dean for academic advising in Weinberg, leading the College Advisers. She teaches and writes about early, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on gender and problems of identity, and about literature of and issues in higher education today. Her dissertation, "'I felt like the girls in books': Sentimental Readership in America, 1850-1870," focused on sentimental fiction and nineteenth-century women readers, and she has published articles about Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Evans's St. Elmo.
Specializations
American: Early/19th Century, Gender Studies, American: 20th Century