Elizabeth Bridges joined the MLL department at Rhodes College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German duing the academic year 2009/10.

Elizabeth Bridges received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2005. Her dissertation, Die Mensch-Maschine: Technologies of Replication and Reproduction in German Literature and Culture, 1770-present, discusses representations of the mechanical human in key German texts. As she expands her previous research into a longer monograph, her continued research on this topic has focused on 18th- and 19th-century visual culture and literature. Her most recent work deals with18th-century European discourses on gender and science in the context of traveling automaton exhibitions. She served previously for four years as a visiting assistant professor at Hendrix College, where she taught courses in German, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies. Her teaching interests include the Bildungsroman, the Faust theme, the Uncanny, literary representations of science and technology, and film adaptation of literary texts.