Eileen Razzari Elrod
Dr. Elrod is a Professor of English with a scholarly focus on contested notions of identity and religious experience in early American texts, particularly in autobiographical writing by marginalized writers. A dedicated teacher (honored with the Brutocao Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007) Eileen has been a member of the SCU faculty since 1992, with service/leadership experience as Associate Provost for Faculty Development from 2010-2024, College of Arts and Sciences Rank and Tenure Committee, Chair of Faculty Affairs, Facilitator for the Ignatian Faculty Forum, Chair of the Women Faculty Group, first faculty cohort for the LEAD program, WGST faculty & Program Council, and English Department Associate Chair. She shares three perfect grown children with her favorite higher education colleague, Roger Razzari Elrod.
- Race, Religion and Gender in Early American Literature
- American Autobiography
- Literature by U.S. Women
- CTW I & 2 (LEAD)
- Studies in Early American Literature: Puritan Poetry; Early American Lifewriting
- Studies in 19th-Century American Literature: Questions of Identity; Literature and Social Change
- Multicultural Literatures of the United States
- Survey of U.S. Literature 1 & 2
- American Novel
- American Poetry
- Senior Seminars: Melville and Moby-Dick; Literature by U.S. Women
Book
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- "New Puritans," American Literary History, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, 134–144.
- "Gender, Genre and Slavery: The Other Rowson, Rowson’s Others." Studies in American Fiction (Special Issue: Beyond Charlotte Temple: New Approaches to Susanna Rowson) 38.1&2 (2011): 163-184.
- “Phillis Wheatley’s Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition.” (Invited) in Imagining Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition. Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield, Eds. Palgrave/Macmillan. 2010. 96-109.
- “Moses and the Egyptian: Religious Authority in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative.” African American Review 35 (2001): 409-425.
- “Harriet Wilson and the White Reader: Authority and Audience in Our Nig.” Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 24 (1999): 297-310.
- “‘I Did Not Make Myself So. . .’: Samson Occom and American Religious Autobiography” in Christian Encounters With The Other. Ed. John Hawley. New York University Press/Macmillan UK. 1998. 135-149.
- “Rebellion, Restraint, and New England Religion: The Ambivalent Feminism of Mary Wilkins Freeman.” Studies In Puritan American Spirituality 6 (1997): 225-264.
- “Truth is Stranger than Non-Fiction: Gender, Religion, and Contradiction in the Works of Rose Terry Cooke.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 13 (1996): 113-129.
- "‘Mouth Put in the Dust’: Personal Authority and Biblical Resonance in Anne Bradstreet’s Grief Poems.” Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 5 (1995): 35-53.
- “‘Exactly Like My Father’: Feminist Hermeneutics in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Non-Fiction.” Journal Of The American Academy of Religion 63 (1995): 695-719.