Elizabeth Ammons


Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University.

Early life and education

Ammons attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Publications

Select books:Critical essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1979Edith Wharton's argument with America, 1980Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century, 1990Ethan Frome, 2005Brave new words : how literature will save the planet, 2010