Elif Armbruster, Assistant Professor

Elif S. Armbruster

Assistant Professor

Suffolk University
English Department
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114

Office: Fenton 330A
Telephone: 617-994-6437
Email: earmbrus@suffolk.edu

Degrees
PhD  American Studies, Boston University
MA  American Studies, University of Southern Maine
BA   English, Haverford College
French at Bryn Mawr College

Relevant Employment
Instructor, CAS Writing Program, Boston University, 2002-2006
Visiting Lecturer, Boston University, 2003
Visiting Lecturer, Tufts University, 2002
Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, 2002, 2003
Instructor, ESL, Paris, France, 1990-1992
Writer and Editor, Worth Magazine, 1996-1998
Reporter and Writer, Money Magazine, 1992-1996
Reporter, Newsweek Magazine, 1990-1992

Research Interests
American Realism (1870-1920), The “International” Novel, American Domestic Architecture (especially late 19th/early 20th century), American Consumer Culture, Studies in the American Dream, Women’s Literature, African-American Literature

Publications
Domestic Designs: Authorship and Architecture from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith  Wharton (under consideration)

“Introduction,” Edith Wharton, Summer (1917). Reprint; New York: Barnes & Noble  Publishing, 2006.

Book Review, Journal of Popular Culture, August, 2004.  Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith: Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s (2003).

Book Review, Journal of Popular Culture, May, 2004. Christopher Byron: Martha, Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (2002) and Jerry Oppenheimer: Just Desserts—Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography (1997).

Courses Taught
ENG 353 Dwelling in American Realism (Fall 2006)
ENG 215 Survey of American Literature I and II
ENG 101 Freshman English I
ENG 102 Freshman English II
ENG 387 Women Writers (Summer 2007)