Meg E. Gillette

Professor, Chair of English

• Phone: 309-794-7384
• Email: MegGillette@augustana.edu
• Office: Old Main 129

Meg Gillette received her B.A. from the University of Iowa and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Her research and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century American literature, women's literature, and midwestern literature.

Dr. Gillette is the chair of the English department, a member of the Women's and Gender Studies advisory board, and the faculty advisor to Unabridged, ÖйúÌå²ÊÍø's English club. 

Her articles on 19th and 20th century literature have recently appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in American Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, and American Literary Realism. Her 2021 article on Davenport writer Alice French won the David D. Anderson Award for Outstanding Essay in Midwestern Literary Studies.

Specializations: American literature, Composition theory, Women's studies, Gender studies