Montgomery College Rockville - English
Writer and English Professor
Higher Education
Elizabeth M.
Huergo
Alexandria, Virginia
PAPERS/LECTURES
“Narrative Bridges/Narrative Repair: Mediating Empire’s Story about Gender and Cultural Identity,” Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict Conference, George Mason University, April 2013
“The Trauma of Exile and Aesthetic Resistance in Nilo Cruz’s ‘Anna in the Tropics,’”
South-east Women’s Studies Association Conference, 29-31 March 2012
"Memory and Metamorphosis in Nilo Cruz's 'Anna in the Tropics'”
South-East Women’s Studies Association Conference, March 2012
"The Power of Marginal Spaces in the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite,"
Panel Chair/Presenter, North-East Modern Language Asso. Conference, April 2011
"Capital and Improvements: Why Supporting the Liberal Arts Matters More than Ever,"
Panel Chair/Presenter, Two-Year College Asso. Conference, November 2010
"Gloria Anzaldua's 'Feminist Architecture' and Political Change,"
Mid-Atlantic Women’s Studies Asso. Conference, June 2010
“Anzaldúa’s ‘Feminist Architecture,’ the Classroom, and the Role of the Public Intellectual”
Presenter, Modern Language Association Conference session on “The Teaching of Literature: The Legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa,” December 2005
“The Eternally Obvious” (short-story)
College English Association/Mid-Atlantic Region Conference, March 2004
“The Other’s Balance of Power: Why Reading Matters in Composition Courses”
College English Asso. Mid-Atlantic Group, March 2003
“Pedro Valle’s Dream”
Reading of excerpt from The Death of Fidel Perez,
Teaism, Washington, D.C., May 2003
"'To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman': The Scandalous Logic of Irene Adler"
New England Asso. of Teachers of English, November 1991
“Teaching Feminist and ‘Minority’ Perspectives”
Faculty Lecture, Rhode Island College, March 1990
“Once Upon a Time This Story Was Mine:
Frankenstein’s Creature and Minority Perspectives in the Classroom”
New England Association of Teachers of English, October 1990
Mary Shelley and Feminist Scholarship”
Faculty Lecture, Rhode Island College, October 1989
Specialties: TEACHING
Montgomery College:
Creative Writing (Fiction)
Mod Amer/British Poetry
Intro. World Lit, I
Intro. Lit.
Basic Comp, I/II
Tech. Reading/Writing, I/II
Garcia Lorca
The Colonial Subject
Women in Lit.
American:
Romantic Imagination (grad/undergrad)
Intro. Comp
Intro. Lit. Analysis
Lit. Imagination
Rhode Island:
Western Lit., II
Adv. Writing
Intro. Academic Writing
Political Heroine
Brown:
Writing about Poetry
The Heroine: Defoe to Lawrence
Feminist Utopias
Adjunct Professor
Elizabeth worked at George Mason University as a Adjunct Professor
Adjunct English Professor
Elizabeth worked at Northern Virginia Community College as a Adjunct English Professor
English Professor
Taught English literature and composition, as well as World Literatures.
Adjunct English Professor
Elizabeth worked at Montgomery College as a Adjunct English Professor
Adjunct Professor
Elizabeth worked at Marymount University as a Adjunct Professor
Adjunct Professor
Elizabeth worked at Marymount University as a Adjunct Professor
M.A.
English (19th-century American Prose)
Ph.D.
English (British Romanticism)
B.A.
English/Pre-Law
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez. Reprinted in The Best of Full Circle (Spring 2004).
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez. Reprinted in The Best of Full Circle (Spring 2004).
Largehearted Boy: A Music and Literature Blog
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez. Reprinted in The Best of Full Circle (Spring 2004).
Largehearted Boy: A Music and Literature Blog
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog, July 2011
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez. Reprinted in The Best of Full Circle (Spring 2004).
Largehearted Boy: A Music and Literature Blog
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog, July 2011
Live Wire Press
Poem published in The Poet's Domain, volume 23, dedicated to Stanley Kunitz
Unbridled Books
“The Death of Fidel Pérez will reward both a general audience looking for a lively read and the discerning reader who truly cares about literature: in short, a heartfelt and well-written novel with a provocative premise.”—Oscar Hijuelos
Live Wire Press
Poem published in the volume In Good Company in the Spring 2005
Lost Horse Press
Poem published in the anthology titled I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Human Rights
Paycock Press
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez published in Gravity Dancers: Fiction by Washington Area Women
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog
Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose
Prose excerpt from the novel The Death of Fidel Perez. Reprinted in The Best of Full Circle (Spring 2004).
Largehearted Boy: A Music and Literature Blog
Pearson Faculty Advisors Blog, July 2011
Live Wire Press
Poem published in The Poet's Domain, volume 23, dedicated to Stanley Kunitz
University of Missouri, St. Louis
Short story published in Natural Bridge in Spring 2005 and kindly nominated by the editors for the 2006 Pushcart Prize