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I'm a scholar of American literature and writing, and my research focuses on poetry. I'm especially drawn to poems with political lives--poems of protest, war, nationhood, and public policy--and I try to understand how their rhymes and rhythms filter through our past and shape our future.
I teach English courses at Georgia Tech, where I am a Postdoctoral Fellow reporting jointly to the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Office of International Education. I am also the Assistant Director for Georgia Tech's First-Year Semester Abroad program at Georgia Tech-Lorraine (FYSA@GTL), our European campus. Check out our adventures in Europe on our Instagram account, @gtfysa. From 2019-2021, I was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Before arriving at Georgia Tech, I held an NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and I've taught English at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Born in a small logging community in rural Oregon, I grew up in the Portland area, and I left to study English and Music at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. I returned to Oregon to pursue a PhD in English Literature at the University of Oregon, which I completed in 2017. |
Contact me via e-mail: elerud3@gatech.edu
Image attributions (top to bottom)
"FYFA at La Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany," photo by Ben Wenzel, 2021
Headshot of Lizzy LeRud, photo by Willamette University, 2017
"FYFA at l'aqueduc cote Ars-sur-Moselle," photo by Ben Wenzel, 2021
"FYFA at La Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany," photo by Ben Wenzel, 2021
Headshot of Lizzy LeRud, photo by Willamette University, 2017
"FYFA at l'aqueduc cote Ars-sur-Moselle," photo by Ben Wenzel, 2021