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Elizabeth Gregory
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Elizabeth Gregory is a Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Houston. She studied at Yale, where she wrote her dissertation on modernist poets who embed quotations (rather than the more standard allusions) in their poems. That project, published as Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “‘Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads,’” included a chapter on Marianne Moore. Since then she has continued to write about modern and contemporary poetry, including confessional work, through the lens of gender. Her current project examines Moore’s later career.
Recently she conducted a multi-disciplinary study of the causes and effects of the trend to starting families later, based on interviews with more than 100 women, many of them from Houston. This led to her recent book Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, (Basic Books, 2007). She blogs about later motherhood issues at www.readymoms.com.
November 13-15, 2008, the Women’s Studies Program hosts a conference on Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity, paired with the THRIVE exhibit at DiverseWorks (November 14-December 20) and curated by Mary Ross Taylor.
Elizabeth trained as a mezzo early on and sings at the drop of a hat.
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Elizabeth Gregory is a Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Houston. She studied at Yale, where she wrote her dissertation on modernist poets who embed quotations (rather than the more standard allusions) in their poems. That project, published as Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “‘Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads,’” included a chapter on Marianne Moore. Since then she has continued to write about modern and contemporary poetry, including confessional work, through the lens of gender. Her current project examines Moore’s later career.
Recently she conducted a multi-disciplinary study of the causes and effects of the trend to starting families later, based on interviews with more than 100 women, many of them from Houston. This led to her recent book Ready: Why Women Are Embracing the New Later Motherhood, (Basic Books, 2007). She blogs about later motherhood issues at www.readymoms.com.
November 13-15, 2008, the Women’s Studies Program hosts a conference on Gender, Creativity and the New Longevity, paired with the THRIVE exhibit at DiverseWorks (November 14-December 20) and curated by Mary Ross Taylor.
Elizabeth trained as a mezzo early on and sings at the drop of a hat.
