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Elizabeth Apple is a PhD Candidate in English at Duke, where she specializes in American literature of the long nineteenth century. Her research interests include the health humanities and religion and literature. At Duke, she has taught courses in American literature, including Women, Witchcraft, and Medicine in Early American Literature and Literature & Medicine. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Nineteenth-Century ContextsThe New England Quarterly, Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, and The Bitter Southerner

She holds a BA in English & American Literatures from Middlebury College and an MDiv from Vanderbilt University.

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Fall 2025 Semester:

Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, and by appointment (Perkins Café)

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Recent Publications


“I hold another creed”: reading Helen Burns’ resistant theology in Jane Eyre

Journal Article Nineteenth-Century Contexts · March 15, 2025 Full text Cite
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