Elizabeth Podnieks is a Professor in the Department of English. She has published on a range of figures such as Vera Brittain, Buchi Emecheta, Zelda Fitzgerald, Nella Larsen, Virginia Woolf, silent film stars, Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, celebrity mom bloggers, father memoirists, and trans parents, among others. In addition to her monographs on modernist motherhood and modernist diary literature, she has produced a critical edition of the diary of modernist Emily Coleman; edited (and contributed to) four scholarly essay collections; and guest edited two issues of the scholarly journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Articles and chapters have appeared in, among others, The Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, Life Writing, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, the Encyclopedia of Motherhood, The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, and The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader. She is a member of the International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS) and is the founder (and served as first Area Chair, 2011-2017) of the Popular Culture Association’s Area on Motherhood/Fatherhood. She has been quoted in articles about parenting in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and Salon.com, among others.
Current projects include co-editing the Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture and contributing a chapter on Indigenous mothering.
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