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Elizabeth Taylor

Brown University

Elizabeth S. Taylor is a distinguished senior lecturer emerita of English at Brown University. She received her BA in American Studies at Smith College, earned her PhD in American Literature from Brown, and then taught at Harvard for five years before returning to Brown in 1994. She teaches creative nonfiction—personal and academic essay, literary journalism, historical narrative, and memoir. She has published essays about the teaching of nonfiction and about the Vietnam War era. She is author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir (University of Missouri Press, 2009). She has a particular interest in mentoring students interested in all forms of nonfiction writing.

Taylor’s videos were used in the now retired curriculum unit, The Limits of Power: The United States in Vietnam.

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