Elizabeth Kerns

Entry Year: 2026

Email

ekerns@smu.edu

Education

M.A., in English Literature, Boston College
B.A in English Literature, George Fox University

Kerns research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the novel and theories of the novel, intersections between literature and theology, and the poetics of place.

 

Academic Publications 

Review of Brent Little, Acts of Faith and Imagination: Theological Patterns in Catholic

Fiction. Religion and the Arts 29(3), 407-409. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02903007

 

Review of Alex Murry, Decadent Conservatism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past. Australasian

Journal of Victorian Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2024: 133-135.

 

Creative Publications 

 

“What We Share” and “Keyhole Cover, Probably Iron.” Schuylkill Valley Journal vol. 53,

Fall/Winter 2021: 84-85.

 

Achievements 

Academic Scholarship, Boston College - 2023 – 2025

 

Sigma Tau Delta Graduate Scholarship - 2023