Elizabeth L. MacNabb began directing the ACS Environmental Programs in 2001, and has been visiting assistant professor of humanities and environmental studies at Centre College since January 2003. The mission of ACS Environmental Programs is to foster collaboration in environmental studies and activities among faculty, staff, and students at the sixteen member institutions of the Associated Colleges of the South. ACS Environmental Programs have been housed at Centre College since 2002.
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, 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. Her earlier work in philosophy produced a bibliography for Texts and Dialogues, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Humanities Press, 1991). 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).
Elizabeth MacNabb holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1990).
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