Centre College Faculty

Elizabeth L. MacNabb

Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities and Enviromental Studies

Telephone: 859-238-6234
E-mail: e.macnabb@centre.edu
Office: Wiseman Hall—101

Elizabeth L. MacNabb directs the ACS Programs in Sustainability and the Environment (ACSPSE) for the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her office is located at Centre College, where MacNabb has often been a visiting assistant professor of humanities and environmental studies since January 2003.

ACSPSE fosters collaboration in environmental studies and activities among faculty, staff, and students at Centre and fifteen other small private liberal arts institutions in twelve southern states. Currently, the program supports 12 Environmental Fellows who are scholar-teachers at ACS institutions. Centre’s Professor Cindy Isenhour is an example of such a scholar-teacher. For more information about Isenhour, click here.

Dr. MacNabb’s current scholarly work involves environmental literature and spirituality. Her other academic interests include women’s studies; in this field she is author of The Fractured Family: The Second Sex and Its (Dis)Connected Daughters (Peter Lang, 1994) and is co-editor of Transforming the Disciplines: a Women’s Studies Primer (Haworth/Routledge, 2001), selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003. MacNabb’s research has also led to articles in scholarly journals, including Journal of Women's History, West Virginia University Philological Papers, and Minnesota Review. A proponent of experiential education, MacNabb co-authored a chapter entitled “Getting Started in Service Learning: Resources for Economists,” in Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Service Learning and Economics (University of Michigan Press, 2002). Her earlier work in philosophy produced a bibliography for Texts and Dialogues, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Humanities Press, 1991).

Elizabeth L. MacNabb holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1990).

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