Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe is associate director of the office of fellowships and teaches history and American studies at Northwestern University, from which she earned her B.A. (1992). She earned M.Litt. (1994) and M.Phil. (1995) degrees in European History as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University before completing her Ph.D. at Princeton University (2000). In her so-called spare time, she fights household entropy, gardens, bakes boozy bundts, enjoys breakfast in Bollywood, and writes scholarly papers about funky monks.
For more, visit http://elizabethlewispardoe.wordpress.com or find Elizabeth on Twitter@ejlp and LinkedIn.
Posts include:
From the Tenure Side-Lines (Inside Higher Ed)
Summer’s Labour’s Lost (Inside Higher Ed)
Afshan Jafar
Anamaria
Deanna E
Denise M Horn
elizabethlewispardoe
Ernesto Priego
gwen
Ana Dinescu
Janine Utell
Mary Churchill
Meg Palladino
meloniefullick
ITIR TOKSÖZ
Heather Alderfer
profjanniaragon
Lee Skallerup Bessette
Riham Bahi
Rosalie Arcala Hall
sharedpast
Liana Silva
Guest Blogger
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[...] Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe (Evanston, USA): For academic writing, nothing works like a deadline. I find it much easier to propose papers for a conference or a collection then meet deadlines imposed by those commitments than to make my own call about when something is ready to submit to a journal for review. My UVenus topics typically come from my desire to opine on current events; I always have an opinion. For my own blog, I turn to my husband’s photography for inspiration when stymied. [...]
[...] Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe (Evanston, USA): I took my suit jacket off at a summer conference dinner in a hot climate to reveal a sleeveless blouse. The male, senior scholar (whom I have known for decades) seated beside me turned to me and exclaimed loudly: “You have disrobed! Woman, cover thyself!” [...]
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