Elizabeth Bobo – M.A. 1992, Ph.D. 2005 – English

Elizabeth Bobo is receiving her Ph.D. in English literature with an interdisciplinary focus on early modern studies.

Bobo's dissertation is titled “Milton and Prophetic Authorship in Revolutionary Print Culture.” Through exploring the self-representations of the great English poet and two of his female contemporaries, the dissertation attends to the collaborative nature of authorship and to the economic, institutional, and political contexts in which these texts were produced.

Bobo has presented several papers at The Huntington Library Renaissance Literature and Early Modern British History Seminars. She organized a panel for the Modern Language Association Conference titled “The Politics of the Print Trade in Revolutionary Writing,” and a panel for the Renaissance Society of America titled “Islam in Print: Figures of the Turk in Seventeenth-Century England.” Her work and travels in over thirty countries has widened her research interests to include early representations of national and ethnic difference.

She earned her M.A. from Claremont Graduate University in English literature and her B.A. in French literature from Reed College, and currently teaches in the Writing Program at Scripps College. Previously, she taught at CSU San Bernardino, Chaffey College, Citrus College, and American University in Cairo.

Bobo was recently awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in a seminar this summer on post-Reformation religious persecution to be held at Ohio State University.