Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

Elizabeth Rollins Epperly (born 1951, Virginia) is an American–Canadian Victorian scholar, author, curator, English professor (from 1976 to 2006), and former university president (1995–1998) of the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Epperly taught at the University of Prince Edward Island for 22 years where she also served as founding chair of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and UPEI's fourth (and first female) president. The Epperly Plaza on the UPEI campus is dedicated in her name. Following her retirement she was made Professor Emerita by the university.

Epperly was the first student to ever register at the newly created University of Prince Edward Island in 1969. She moved to Canada from the United States because of her love for Lucy Maud Montgomery's writing. and This Anne Place: Anne of Green Gables as Idea, Book and Musical. She serves on the board of the Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority and the International Advisory Board of the LMMI.

Selected publications The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroine's and the Pursuit of Romance, 2014 Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, 2008 Through Lovers Lane: L.M. Montgomery's Photography and Visual Imagination, 2007 L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, Ed. by Irene Gammel and Elizabeth R. Epperly, University of Toronto Press, 1999 My Dear Mr. M.: Letters to G.B. MacMillan from L.M. Montgomery. 1980. Ed. by Francis W.P. Bolger and Elizabeth R. Epperly. Oxford University Press, 1992. The More We Get Together. Ed. by Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, Elizabeth R. Epperly, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Gynergy Press, 1992. Patterns of Repetition in Trollope. Catholic University of America Press, 1989. Anthony Trollope's Notes on the Old Drama. University of Victoria: ELS Monograph Series, 1988.