Elizabeth "Byrd" Gibbens (June 5, 1936 – December 20, 2023) was an American historian and professor.
Life Gibbens was born in Tyler, Texas, on June 5, 1936, and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a young woman, she became a nun in the Sisters of St. Joseph, leaving the religious order in 1977 to pursue higher education. She subsequently earned a PhD in literature and American Studies with an emphasis on folklore.
she was a professor of English at the University of New Mexico. She also taught at the University of Arkansas.
She died on December 20, 2023, at the age of 87.
Selected publications
This is a Strange Country: Letters of a Westering Family, 1880-1906 (1988, University of New Mexico Press: )Review of This is a Strange Country: Susan Albertine (1992), "Heart's Expression: The Middle-Class Language of Love in Late Nineteenth-Century Correspondence", American Literary History, Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, Byrd Gibbens, and Elizabeth Hampsten (2002, U of Nebraska Press: Reviews of Far from Home: G. Thomas Edwards (1990), The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Gloria Ricci Lothrop (1990), The Journal of American History, Paula Mitchell Marks (1991), The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, David Wyatt (1991), "Hard facts in the west: beyond the american sublime", The Virginia Quarterly Review,
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