Elizabeth is a PhD candidate in the English department, studying nineteenth-century British and Caribbean literature. Her dissertation focuses on the tensions between literary and legal imaginings of racial categories in the era of British Emancipation. At Northwestern, she has previously convened the Long Nineteenth Century Colloquium and held a teaching assistantship in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She is excited to bring her love for working across disciplines and departments to the Graduate Writing Place and to collaborate with peers in finding the clearest and most precise ways to articulate their ideas and arguments.