Elizabeth Tasker

Elizabeth Tasker Davis is Professor of English and Coordinator of Graduate Studies at Stephen F. Austin State University where she specializes in teaching eighteenth-century British literature, satire, and women’s writing.  She is the author of Wit, Virtue, and Emotion: British Women’s Enlightenment Rhetoric (Southern Illinois UP 2021), and she is co-editor of British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Politics of Gender, Lampoonery, and Literary Caricature (Cambridge UP 2022).  Tasker Davis has published articles on a variety of eighteenth-century British women writers, Restoration actresses, and the history of rhetoric. She is also a past president of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.