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Elizabeth Taylor

Senior Lecturer in English; Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program

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

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0130 - S01: Critical Reading and Writing II: The Research Essay -- CRN 11907
 ENGL 1160C - S01: Radio Nonfiction -- CRN 15466

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

Research Interests
the research essay; creative nonfiction: literary journalism, historical narrative, memoir; radio nonfiction; writings of the Southeast Asian war.

Professional Accomplishments
Dr. Elizabeth S. (Beth) Taylor directs the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English at Brown. She teaches creative nonfiction -- literary journalism, historical narrative, memoir, and radio nonfiction, as well as "Writing the Southeast Asian War." 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."