Ph.D University of Virginia
M.A. Clemson University
B.A. The College of William and Mary

Professor Gilbert does research in twentieth-century American cultural and literary studies.  Her other interests include women and gender studies, film, and nineteenth-century British literature and culture.  

ENG 205: Approaches to the Study of Literature

ENG 290 (Honors): Lit Chicks and Chick Flicks: Representations of Women in Popular Culture

ENG 390: Studies in Literature

The Literary Fifties                  

Prizing the Novel: American Literature and the Pulitzer Prize              

The Fire This Time: Baldwin, Wright, Ellison

ENG 561: Topics in American Literature

Nuclear Nation: Mid-twentieth Century American Literature and Culture American Literature and the Pulitzer

ENG 580: Studies in Literature

Strangers in the Village: Twentieth-century Black American Writer

•  “'No more weepin’ and wailin’: Sounds of Blackness and Divadom in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life.” Screening Noir 2.1 (2008) Forthcoming.

• “Verdi’s Byronic Shakespeare: Evolving Heroisms in the Opera Otello (1887).” Interdisciplinary Humanities 25.1 (2008): 99-110. 

• “American Iconoclast: Carmen Jones and the Revolutionary Divadom of Dorothy Dandridge.”  Women’s Studies Quarterly 33 (2005): 234-249.