​Amy Pawl​

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​Amy Pawl​

​Amy Pawl​

Teaching Professor in English​
Director of Children’s Studies
research interests:
  • Eighteenth-century literature
  • Jane Austen
  • history of children's literature

contact info:

mailing address:

  • Washington University
    CB 1122
    One Brookings Drive
    St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Amy Pawl ​teaches courses on Eighteenth-century literature, Jane Austen, and the history of children's literature.

 

Her publications include articles and book chapters on Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Charlotte Lennox.  Her reviews of children’s literature have appeared in The Common Reader.  National and local  conference presentations and public lectures feature work on Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, John Newbery, Louise Abeita, and "Carolyn Keene"; subjects include narrative strategies and sentiment, reader response and interactivity, textual play, and child authorship, 

 

Awards and Honors include:

The First Annual Miriam Bailin Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of English

National American Library Award, Leab Notable Citation, for “The Monster’s Library,” co-curated class exhibit, Olin Special Collections

Association of Women Faculty Development Stipend

 

Recent University Service includes:

A&S Teaching Innovation Faculty Awards Committee

A&S Graduate Student Teaching Awards Committee

Courses

  • ELIT 3502 Topics in American Literature: Girls' Fiction
  • ELIT 324 Selected English Writers: Jane Austen
  • ELIT 3130 A History of the Golden Age of Children's Literature
  • ELIT 362 The Other Eighteenth Century: Spectres, Monsters, Tricksters and Beggars in Enlightenment England
  • ELIT 474 Frankenstein: Origins and Afterlives