Department of English

Elizabeth Podnieks

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto

Office: JOR 1040
Telephone: 416.979.5000 ext.6547
E-mail: lpodniek@ryerson.ca

Elizabeth Podnieks is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Joint Ryerson/York Graduate Program in Communication and Culture. Her teaching and research interests include Life Writing, Modernism, Mothering, Women’s Studies, Popular/Celebrity Culture, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Humanities. She has published on a range of figures from Modernists Emily Coleman, Virginia Woolf, Anaïs Nin, and Zelda Fitzgerald to Perez Hilton, Angelina Jolie, and celebrity mom bloggers. She is a member of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI); is an advisor of the Academic Board for the Museum of Motherhood; and is the Area Chair for the Popular Culture Association’s Area on Motherhood/Fatherhood. At present she is working on a monograph about mothers in modernism; and in the preliminary stages of a project to digitize and mark-up material in The Emily Holmes Coleman Papers at the University of Delaware Library.

Research Interests

Life Writing, Modernism, Mothering, Women’s Studies, Popular/Celebrity Culture, Scholarly Editing, and Digital Humanities.

Selected Publications

• Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
  
• Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2012.
  
• Textual Mothers/ Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks and Andrea O’Reilly. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010.
  
• Hayford Hall: Hangovers, Erotics, and Modernist Aesthetics. Ed. Elizabeth Podnieks and Sandra Chait. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.
  
• Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2000.