Awards

Lieber Memorial Associate Instructor Award - 2019

About Elizabeth Maffetone

Elizabeth Maffetone is an accomplished scholar and educator with a focus on medieval literature and gender studies. She obtained her B.A. in English Literature from The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She then obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Indiana University Bloomington in 2016 and 2020, respectively.

Her research interests include delving into the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and exploring the connection between gender violence and acts of reading, writing, and interpretation during the Middle Ages. She is often described as one of the most outstanding teachers in the Department of English and is much beloved by those with whom she works, including faculty, staff, students.

She has received a variety of honors and awards, including the Medieval Studies Symposium Graduate Student Paper Prize, Culbertson Third-Year Associate Instructor Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship, among many more. In 2019, she received Indiana University’s Lieber Memorial Associate Instructor Award.