Juniper Ellis         
Associate Professor

Office
Humanities 242 I
Department of English
Loyola College in Maryland
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210.

Phone:410.617.5492
Fax:410.617.2702
jellis@loyola.edu

Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Academic Profile

Dr. Juniper Ellis teaches courses including Critical Methodologies: Banned Books, Islands Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, American Literature, and Literature of the City. Her Fall 2007 Honors Seminar is on how to read the world through tattoo, maps, and other signs.

Her first year at Loyola she received the Teacher of the Year award from students of the international English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Her book Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin will be published by Columbia University Press in 2008. Her most recent articles appeared in PMLA, Mosaic, and Melville and Women. She has received Fulbright grants for research in Germany and New Zealand, and other national grants including NEH and Andrew W. Mellon fellowships.

She chairs the national steering committee on justice in Jesuit higher education and gives talks and workshops on social justice.

Courses taught
EN 376, Foundations of Post-colonial Literature
EN 385, Travel Literature;
EN 385, Islands Literature;
EN 409, Honors Seminar: Read the World.