Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University.

Early life and education

Ammons attended

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

Publications

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* ''Critical essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe'', 1979 * ''Edith Wharton's argument with America'', 1980 * ''Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century'', 1990 * ''Ethan Frome'', 2005 * ''Brave new words : how literature will save the planet'', 2010

References

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