// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Elizabeth Ammons say to her friend? "Let's amuse the monks.

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, 1979
• Edith Wharton's argument with America, 1980
• Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century, 1990
• Ethan Frome, 2005
• Brave new words : how literature will save the planet, 2010