Elizabeth Rich

Professor of English

Department of English

Arts & Behavioral Sciences

Academic and Student Affairs


SVSU Main Campus

Science East 164

989-964-4317

rich@svsu.edu

Biography

Literature that innovates form to highlight marginal perspectives and lost histories is a guiding interest in Dr. Rich's work, demonstrated by published articles on Hamid Mohsin & Naveed Nori, Elizabeth Bishop, American Indian literature, and Penelope Lively, as well as conference papers (most recently) on Carmen Bugan, Lousie Erdrich, Gertrude Stein, Hannah Weiner, and Susan Howe. Her book After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late 20th Century Literature (2021) analyzes a subset of historiographical metafiction that incorporates the historical document in an imaginative act to recover lost voices in history. Dr. Rich belongs to the Modern Language Association (MLA) and is regularly a member of The Space Between Society and the Modernist Studies Association. Dr. Rich has been an active part of the English department, serving on a variety of committees, and of the University, serving on the Executive Board of the Faculty Association and the Curriculum & Academic Policies Committee. She has also advised many student groups, such as the English Club, which held student-faculty colloquia and joined in community service, including students volunteering to read to children in local libraries. Sexuality and Gender Spectrum Alliance, Cardinal Readers, Honor Corps, and Concerned Christian Students. 

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
Duquesne University

Teaching Interests

Contemporary fiction, contemporary poetry, modernist studies, critical theory

Research

Historiographic metafiction, contemporary literature, literature of migration, world literature

Leadership

Honors Program, Chair, previously Department of English Chair, Department of English Assistant Chair, previously Executive Board service as secretary and then at-large member of the Faculty Association

Honors and Awards

Nominee for the 2022 Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year award

Franc A. Landee Award for Teaching Excellence

Ablers Club "Golden Apple Award"

Affiliations

Margaret Atwood Society

Modern Language Association

The Space Between Society