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Elizabeth Sabiston

Department of English

Professor Emerita

Office: Atkinson Building, 636
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 33420
Email: sabiston@yorku.ca


Elizabeth Sabiston, author of The Prison of Womanhood: Four Provincial Heroines in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1987) and The Muse Strikes Back: Female Narratology in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui (2005), has taught courses in the 19th- and 20th-century novel and American literature. She co-edited, with Suzanne Crosta, the Proceedings of the 2005 International Colloquium at York, entitled Perspectives Critiques: L’Oeuvre d’Hédi Bouraoui (2007). Her book on nineteenth-century British women novelists, Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot, was published by Ashgate in May 2008. She has published, among others, articles on Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Director of the Canada-Maghreb Centre at Stong College since 2002, she has been working on Francophone Maghrebian literature, particularly the works of Hédi Bouraoui, and has translated into English his novels, Retour à Thyna (Return to Thyna), and Ainsi Parle la Tour CN (Thus Speaks the CN Tower), as well as his récit, Puglia à bras ouverts (Puglia with Open Arms).

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ELIZABETH SABISTON. B.A. (N.Y.U.) ; M.A. (INDIANA) ; PH.D. (CORNELL)
Elizabeth Sabiston, author of The Prison of Womanhood: Four Provincial Heroines in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1987) and The Muse Strikes Back: Female Narratology in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui (2005), has taught courses in the 19th- and 20th-century novel and American literature. She co-edited, with Suzanne Crosta, the Proceedings of the 2005 International Colloquium at York, entitled Perspectives Critiques: L’Oeuvre d’Hédi Bouraoui (2007). Her book on nineteenth-century British women novelists, Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot, was published by Ashgate in May 2008. She has published, among others, articles on Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Director of the Canada-Maghreb Centre at Stong College since 2002, she has been working on Francophone Maghrebian literature, particularly the works of Hédi Bouraoui, and has translated into English his novels, Retour à Thyna (Return to Thyna), and Ainsi Parle la Tour CN (Thus Speaks the CN Tower), as well as his récit, Puglia à bras ouverts (Puglia with Open Arms).

Degrees

Ph.D., English, Cornell University
M.A., English, Indiana University
A.B., English, New York University

Professional Leadership

1980-81 York Coordinator, York/ University of Toronto Women’s Research Colloquia.

1980-81 Organized George Eliot Symposium, Stong College, March 18-19, 1981.

1982-83 Organized Brontë Sisters – Elizabeth Gaskell Symposium, Stong College, March, 1983.

1983-84 Organized “Hands Across the Border – Canadian and American Women Writers” Symposium, Stong College, March, 1984.

1987-88 Helped organize a conference on Francophone Literatures, Creativity and Criticism, Stong College, May, 1988.

March 7, 1990 Introductory lecture on film, “Dangerous Liaisons,” for English Students’Association, York.

January, 2005 Vetted two papers on Henry James for annual ACCUTE meetings at the Learned Societies, University of Western Ontario, held in May, 2005.

2002-05 Organized International Colloquium, May 26-28, 2005: « Transculturel- Transpoétique: L’Oeuvre de Hédi Bouraoui « (Canada-Maghreb Centre, Stong College, and Département d’études françaises, Faculty of Arts), York University.

Research Interests

Women in Literature, especially 19th-century women novelists; American literature; French literature; Maghreb studies, English