KAREN E.B. ELLIOTT
Restoring the Soul of Literature
Dr. Karen E.B. Elliott has served preparatory school and college students for 30 years. Through literature she and her students navigate their relevancy and faith in a technocratic world. Elliott holds an Ed.D. from Northeastern University, an M.A. from New York University, and a B.A. from Ithaca College. As a life-long learner, Elliott has also done intensive study at Oxford University focusing on Shakespeare, Medieval English Literature, and Victorian Realism.
As a tenured literary professor, Elliott's doctoral and ongoing research explores revisiting pedagogical practices that leave space for critical thinking and self-reflection. Her work invites readers into conversations that help navigate humanity and faith in a culture saturated with incongruent discourse. She and her students search for meaning within a Western educational system that, she attests, has long outlived its purpose.
Dr. Elliott teaches graduate level courses preparing and mentoring the next generation of teachers. She also serves in preparatory schools/colleges with seniors and first-year university students as she seeks to prepare them to be change agents in a broken but beautiful world.
She loves her work and her students.
In the spirit of William Deresiewicz, David Brooks, Rachel Held Evans, and Rod Dreher, Karen E.B. Elliott merges scholarship with personal anecdotes and candid reflections as she discusses why reading and contemplating literature is truly life changing.