Elif Armbruster, Assistant Professor

Elif S. Armbruster, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of English

 

 

 

 

 

Phone: 617.994.6437
Fax: 617.305.1744
Email: earmbruster@suffolk.edu
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 330A

 

Education

  • PhD, Boston University
  • MA, University of Southern Maine
  • BA, Haverford College

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
  • Latino/a Literature in English

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

 

Publications

Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

 

"Introduction," "Notes," and "Chronology" to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Reprint; New York, Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2011.

 

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

 

Book Reviews

Journal of Popular Culture, December, 2008
Mary Ann Mason & Eve Mason Ekman: Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers (2008).

 

Journal of Popular Culture, February, 2006
Dolores Hayden: Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (2003).

 

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

 

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 101 - Freshman English I
ENG 102 - Freshman English II
ENG 216 - World Literature in English
ENG 217 - American Literature I: 1492-1865 
ENG 301 - Gateway Seminar 
ENG 353 - Dwelling in American Realism
ENG 380 - James and Wharton
ENG 387 - Women Writers
ENG 525H - Latina Writers (Fall 2011)
AMST 111 - Introduction to American Studies
WGS 111 - Introduction to Women's Studies