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Elizabeth Taylor

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 402
Phone: (401) 863-3743

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0130 - S01: Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay: "The Thoughtful Generalist" -- CRN 11364
  •   ENGL 1180J - S01: Special Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Tales of the Real World -- CRN 14936
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 1160B - S01: Special Topics in Journalism: Editors/Producers -- CRN 24957
  •   ENGL 1180Q - S01: Special Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Narrating History -- CRN 24960
  •   ENGL 1190L - S01: Special Topics in Nonfiction Writing: Creative Nonfiction: Practice and Criticism -- CRN 25664

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Degrees
Ph.D. Brown University, 1989
M.A. Brown University, 1984
B.A. Smith College, 1975

Research Interests
Nonfiction Writing: Research Essay; Literary Journalism; Historical Narrative; Memoir; Radio Nonfiction

Professional Accomplishments
Dr. Elizabeth S. (Beth) Taylor teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English at Brown. She directed the program from 2004 to 2009. She teaches creative nonfiction -- literary journalism, historical narrative, memoir, and radio nonfiction. She earned her PhD in American Literature from Brown in 1989, then taught at Harvard before returning to Brown. A former feature writer, and now book reviewer, for the Providence Journal, her most recent essays include a reflection on Brown's new Nonficton Writing Program in Composition Studies, "Apprenticing Nonfictionists" in The Journal of Teaching Writing, and "Itches and Scratches" in Brown Alumni Magazine. Her essays on the Vietnam War era include a Pendle Hill pamphlet, "Quaker in Vietnam: Rick Thompson (1949-1973)"; "Fighting Pacifism" in Friends Journal; "Crossing the Line: Finding Butch," in War, Literature, and the Arts; "Lost to Vietnam: Choices and Impact" in the anthology, Friends and the Vietnam War, and on the web site "Writing Vietnam;" and "Conflict and Loss" in NPR's "This I Believe" series. The final publication in this series is her book, The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir, published by the University of Missouri Press in April, 2009.