Associate Professor of English
High Point University
Campus Address:
213 Norcross
1 University Parkway
High Point, NC 27268
Campus Phone: 336-841-9560
Campus Email: lalexander@highpoint.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/lauraalexander/home
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 2008
M. A. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2004
B. A. with Honors in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002
Positions Held:
Associate Professor of English (with tenure), High Point University, Fall 2018-present
Assistant Professor of English, High Point University, Fall 2012-Spring 2018
Instructor, Duke University, Thompson Writing Program, Spring 2007-2012
Lecturer, North Carolina State University, Fall 2006-Spring 2012
Teaching Assistant, UNC-Greensboro, Fall 2004-Spring 2006
Dissertation
“The Female Libertine from Dryden to Defoe,” directed by Dr. James Evans, and defended February 2008
Poetry Chapbooks:
The Four Wonders. Los Angeles, CA: Bottelecap Press, 2025.
Academic Books:
Fairy Tales as Social Critique in Adaptations by Women Writers. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2025.
Transformations of Trauma in Women’s Writing. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. Print. Paperback edition published 2024.
Women Writing Trauma in Literature. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2022. Print. (hardback). Paperback edition published August 10, 2023.
The Beauty of Melancholy and British Women Writers, 1670-1720. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Print. Paperback edition published April 2023.
Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. Print. Paperback edition published December 2024.
Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Print.
Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Print.
Published Reviews of Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul
Broad, Jacqueline. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 29.3 (April 2017). 519-21. Print and Web.
Published Reviews of Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730
Simpson, Kim. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. 37.4 (December 2014). Print.
Tsai, Li-Hui. Notes and Queries. 61.2 (June 2014). Print.
Carnell, Rachel. Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 25.4. (Summer 2013). Web.
Wanko, Cheryl. The Scriblerian. 65.2. (Spring 2013). Print.
Childs, Cassie. Women's Writing. 20.1 (2012). Web. 30 May 2013.
Matalon, Mary Katherine. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 12.2 (Spring 2012). Web 15 May 2012.
Devereaux, Johanna. The Review of English Studies. 63.259 (April 2012). Web 15 May 2012.
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Beggs, Courtney. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women and the Arts. 3 (April 2013). Web 30 May 2013.
Pfeiffer, Loring. Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research. 25.2 (Winter 2010). 65. Print.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
“Consciousness of Right: Jane Austen and the Categorical Imperative,” accepted and forthcoming from Renascence (2025).
“Nathaniel Lee and the Lucretian Sublime,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 36.4 (Fall 2024).
"Shadowed Selves: Trauma in Magda Szabó’s Katalin Street,” Crisis in Contemporary British Fiction, ed. Anastasia Logotheti. Cambridge Scholars, October 2023.
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “Verses Wrote in a Library” and the Poetical Imagination,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Sept 2023). DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2023.2258386
“The Long, Melancholy Shadow of Walter Charleton’s Ephesian Matron,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35.3. July 2023. 397-400.
‘Marring the Plot: Susannah Centlivre’s The Busybody and the Critique of Heteronormativity.” Theory and Practice in English Studies 10.1 (2021): 103-6.
“A Tale of Two Bigamists: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret and Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (Oct 2020). DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1842720.
“Syrena was a Girl”: Teaching Haywood's Anti-Pamela as a Role-Playing Game.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood, Ed. Tiffany Potter. New York: MLA, 2020. 134-140.
“Anne Killigrew: A Spiritual Wit.” Writing and Constructing the Self in Great Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. John Baker, Allan Ingram, and Marion Leclair. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2018. 27-43.
" ‘Persecutions of the Age’: Public Women and the Art of Political Resistance,” The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Journal from the North 10.4 (Fall 2018): 72-8. Print and Electronic.
"Topography of Darkness: Isabel Allende's 'If You Touched my Heart,’ the Gothic and Disability," Journal of Dracula Studies 20 (October 2018): 82-100.
“Anne Conway’s Vitalism: A Physico-Theological Philosophy.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 32.2 (July 2018). 93-6.
“Literary Hybridity and the Aesthetic of Suffering and Desire in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets,” Feminist Studies in English Literature 24.3 (2016). 159-83.
“Rewriting Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard: Judith Cowper’s Abelard to Eloisa and Early Gothic Sensibility," English Studies 97.6 (July 2016): 608-17.
“The Forbidden Space in Mary, Lady Chudleigh’s ‘Song: To Lerinda’.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 68.2 (2016). 115-25.
“Devouring Desire: Fear of the Abject in Marvell's Daphnis and Chloe.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 28.1 (June 2015): 25-28.
“Nathaniel Lee.” The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Vol II. Ed. Gary Day and Jack Lynch. Wiley-Blackwell, March 2015. 696-99. Print and Electronic.
“The Language of Suffering in Anne Killigrew’s “On the Birthday of Queen Katherine” and Penelope to Ulysses.” Interactions: Journal of English and American Studies 24. 1-2. (February 2015): 91-98. Print.
“Anne Killigrew and the Fragments of Power,” The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Journal from the North 7.2 (March 2015): 77-105. Print and Web.
“Private Selves and Public Conflicts: Mastery and Gender Identity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.” Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies 51 (2015). 27 paragraphs. Web.
“The Poetics of Loss: Grieving for England in Pope’s Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 27.1 (Mar 2014). 1-4. Print and Web.
“Literary and Commercial Exchanges in the Age of Defoe: Legacies of the ‘Fine Taste of Writing.’” Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries 5.1 (2013). Web.
“ ‘The End of Exile is the End of Being’: the Enlightenment and the Death of the Femme Fatale in Angela Carter’s “The Lady of the House of Love.” Journal of Dracula Studies 15 (2013): 47-64. Print.
“The Beauty of Stasis: Silence and Slow Time in Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Transverse: A Comparative Literature Journal 13.1 (2013): 60-9. Print.
“A Martyr to Love: Mary Wroth’s Sonnets in the Early British Literature Survey Course.” Teaching College Literature: A Resource Guide July 2013. Web.
“The Artist’s Poisoned Flower: Empiricism and the Spirit in “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Journal from the North, 5.3 (2013). 78-91. Print and Web.
“Teaching Defoe’s Roxana,” Teaching College Literature: A Resource Guide. April 2013. Web.
“Catherine Trotter’s Humane Libertines.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 50.3 (Summer 2010): 583-99. Print.
“ ‘Decencies of Behavior’: Dryden’s Libertines in Marriage A-la-Mode.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 24.1 (Summer 2009): 47-60. Print.
“Mother and Daughter: Augusta Webster and the Maternal Production of Art.” Papers on Language and Literature 44.1 (2008): 52-66. Print.
— Essay Reprinted by Gale Research, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, volume 230, 2010. Print.
“Goblins of Desire: Carew’s Libertine Women in ‘A Rapture.’” CEA Critic 69.3 (2007): 1-12. Print.
“ ’Th’unhappy Poet’s Breast’: Resisting Violation in Anne Finch’s “To the Nightingale.” English Studies 88.2 (2007): 166-76. Print.
“ ‘Breathings of the Heart’: Reading Sensibility in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard.” New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 3.1 (2006): 32-41. Print.
“Imagining Adam’s Dream: Keats’s Chamber of Maiden Thought in The Eve of St. Agnes.” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 34 (2006): 11-29. Print.
“Suffering the Muse: Charlotte Smith’s Interior Other.” Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-Century British and American Fiction. Ed. Darby Lewes. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2006. 93-99. Print.
“Senecan Stoicism and Shakespeare’s Richard III.” Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American Studies 14 (2005): 27-48. Print.
“Thanne Have I Gete of Yow Maistrie”: Power and the Subversive Body in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.” Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies. 1.1 (2005). Web.
“Helene Cixous and the Rhetoric of Feminine Desire: Re-Writing the Medusa,” Mode 1 (2004): 17-32. Print.
Poetry:
“The Writer.” Journal of South Texas English Studies, 4.2 (Summer 2013): 126. Web.
“To Abelard from Heloise.” Journal of South Texas English Studies, 4.2 (Summer 2013): 125. Web.
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Bluebeard.” Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Spring 2013. 48-9. Print.
“Hansel and Gretel.” Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. Spring 2013. 50. Print.
Public Humanities Essays:
“What Makes a Self?” The Lighted Lamp, High Point: HPU, 2021. Print and Web.
“Creating a Digital Archive,” HPU Library Instruction Tech Blog. 19 June 2014. Web.
"Writing Against Captivity: Phillis Wheatley's Illimitable Imagination," Interesting Literature. 24 June 2013. Web.
"350 Years of Dangerous Women," The 18th-Century Common. 22 May 2013. Web.
"Cultivating Philosophy in the Epicurean Garden," The 18th-Century Common. 14 May 2013. Web.
Funded Digital Projects
The London Map, 1654, British Library Crace Collection (NCSU Idea Grant 2010, $8,000)
Digital Pedagogy Workshops Attended:
THAT Camp, UNC-Chapel Hill, September 15, 2012.
Workshops on Digital Resources Offered to HPU Faculty:
“Using Virtual Reality and Google in the Classroom,” CITL Talk, April 12, 2017
“Creating Google Websites for the Classroom,” Phillips Computer Lab, April 30, 2013
Conference Presentations and Activity:
Keats’s “Faery Land”: Poetic Imagination and the “Elfin World,” presented at the Annual Incredible Nineteenth Century Conference, 1789-1910: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale conference, virtual, May 2, 2025.
“Abelard in Love,” presented at the 2023 2019 International Congress on the Enlightenment at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, in Rome, Italy, July 1-7, 2023.
“Liberty and ‘Consciousness of Right’: Jane Austen’s Persuasion and the Kantian Categorical Imperative,” British Women Writer’s Conference, University of Virginia, May 23-27, 2023.
“Laetitia Pilkington’s “Verses wrote in a library” and the Poetical Imagination,” presented at the Annual Eighteenth-Century Irish Literature Conference, June 16-17, 2022, University of Cork.
Participant, Virtual Conference offered by the Huntingdon Library- “This Reading of Books Is a Pernicious Thing”: Restoration Women Writers and Their Readers,” Thursday, April 15 and Friday, April 16, 2021.
“Revisions of Abelard and Heloise in Eighteenth-Century Literature.” Symposium: Catholicism and Literary Culture in Scotland, Ireland, and England: Comparative Perspectives, virtual, June 1-2, 2021. Hosted by the University of Glasgow and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
“Abjected Identities in Alexander Pope's Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady and Eloisa to Abelard,” presented at the 2019 International Congress on the Enlightenment at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Edinburgh, July 15-19, 2019.
“Vitalism in Mary, Lady Chudleigh’s Poems (1703),” to be presented at the 44th Meeting of the Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Doubletree, Hilton, Myrtle Beach, SC, February 21-23, 2019.
“ ‘Syrena was a Girl’: Teaching Haywood's Anti-Pamela as a Role-Playing Game,” presented at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Buena Vista Hotel, Orlando, FL, March 22-25, 2018.
“Wooing the Muse in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets,” presented at the 46th annual British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, January 4-7, 2017.
"Creating a Digital Archive: A Digital Humanities Project in the Classroom," presented at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, High Point University, High Point, NC, May 20-21, 2016.
“The Corporeal Soul and the Animal Spirits: Anne Conway, Vitalist Philosophy, and the Cambridge Platonists,” Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Savannah, GA, Savannah Marriott Riverfront, Februarly 24-28, 2016.
"The Senses of Love in Mary, Lady Chudleigh's 'Song: To Lerinda,' " presented at the 2014 40th Annual Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 10-12, 2014.
Panel Chair, "Transmutations of the Self," 2014 40th Annual Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 10-12, 2014.
"Judith Cowper Madan's Gothic Revision of Pope's Eloisa: Memory, Desire, and Abelard to Eloisa," 39th Annual Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Greensboro, NC, Guilford College, October 18-19, 2013.
Panel Chair, "Unraveling Literary Teleologies," 39th Annual Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Greensboro, NC Guilford College, October 18-19, 2013.
"Anne Killigrew among the Amazons," presented at the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Cleveland, OH, Renaissance Hotel, April 4-7, 2013.
“Digital Dryden,” 38th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Holiday Inn Decatur-Atlanta Conference Plaza, Decatur, GA, March, 2012.
Folger Institute Program Participation in the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective,” September 27-30, 2012.
Folger Institute Program Participation in the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “Contact and Exchange: China and the West,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, September 26, 2009.
Folger Institute Program Participation in the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “The Mental World of Restoration England,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, April 13-14, 2007.
“Roxana’s Libertine Materialism.” Presented at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Sheraton Colony Square, March 22-25, 2007.
“ ‘Th’unhappy Poet’s Breast’: Resisting Violation in Anne Finch’s “To the Nightingale.” Presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Aphra Behn Society for Woman and the Arts, 1600-1830, in Daytona Beach, Florida, at the El Caribe Resort, October 28-30, 2005.
“Writing Through a Dialectic of Pain and Desire: The Structure of Confinement and Release in Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard.” Presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Myrtle Beach, SC, March 3-5, 2005.
“ ‘Thanne Have I gete of yow maistrie’: Power and the Subversive Body in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.” Presented at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies: “East/South/West/North: Encounters in the Medieval World,” Brown University, October 2, 2004.
“Reinventing Stoicism: The Influence of Seneca’s Tragic Conventions and Stoic Philosophy in Shakespeare’s Richard III.” Presented at the 2004 Copia Renaissance Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, April 17, 2004.
Invited Talks:
HPU CITL Talk, School of Education, “Using Virtual Reality and Google in the Classroom,” April 12, 2017.
“Jane Austen and Immanuel Kant,” given to the HPU Honors Salon in York Hall 4th floor, September 22, 2015.
"Tricksters in Fairy Tales," given to the HPU Honors Salon in York Hall 4th floor, April 1, 2015.
“The History of the Bible and the Book of Martyrs,” invited talk given to two sections of Dr. Bill Carpenter’s Spring 2014 English 2200 Course themed, “Apocalyptic Literature,” HPU School of Education and Smith Library, January 21, 2014.
HPU Women’s and Gender Studies Speaker Series Talk, "The Sister Arts: The Poetry and Painting of Anne Killigrew," Norton Hall, February 25, 2013
HPU Women’s and Gender Studies “Coffee Chat” with WGS Minors on Fairy Tales, Starbucks Wanek Center, February 25, 2013
HPU Alumni Talk presented with Dr. Karen Summers and Dr. Cara Kozma, "Twilight and Gothic Literature," HPU Philips Hall, October 5, 2012
“Dryden’s Marriage A-la-Mode and Women at the Court of Charles II,” invited talk given to graduate students in Dr. John Morillo’s English 579, “Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama” course, NCSU Tompkins Hall, February 21, 2011.
Courses Taught:
HPU: DIS: The Gothic; DIS: Fairy Tales; ENG 4510 “Genre Theory” (the Female Gothic); ENG 4305: Traditions, “Metaphysical Poets” (offered as a hybrid), ENG 4520: "Long Eighteenth-Century British Literature," ENG 2720 (formerly 2250), "British Literature to 1800,"; ENG 2200 “Early Women Writers,” and ENG/WGS 2200, "Fairy Tale Traditions" (also offered online and in person), ENG 1103, "Rhetoric and Composition," ENG 3299, "Other Americas," ENG/WGS/GBS 3298, Women Writing Worldwide
ENG 3320, “Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1660-1837” (both courses are pending approval); Honors 3611, “The Art of Melancholy”; WGS/ENG2220 “Women’s Literary Traditions”
Duke: Writing 20, "Libertine Performances," Writing 20, “The World of Jane Austen”
NCSU: Honors 202, "A Dish of Mixed Fruits: The Art of Satire," Honors 202, "The Great Fairy Tale Tradition," ENG 251, "Major British Writers," ENG 261, "British Literature to 1660," ENG 262 "British Literature, 1660-present"
UNCG: ENG 101, 102 (speaking intensive), Teaching Intern, UNC-Greensboro, ENG 349, “The English Novel from Defoe to Hardy,” under the direction of Dr. James Evans, Spring 2006; Writing Center Tutor and Co-Manager, UNC-Greensboro Writing Center, Fall 2004 and Summer 2005
Grants, Fellowships, and Funded Research
HPU Growth Mindset Grant for Innovative Pedagogy (AY 2020-2022), $6500 awarded)
HPU President Engagement Grant for Digital Archive Project, $500, Fall 2021
HPU Sabbatical with Funding, $4000 awarded, Fall 2019
Think Big! Grant for Virtual Reality in Higher Education, $23,237 with co-proposers Dr. Thomas Dearden and Dr. Matthew Brophy, Spring 2016
Common Experience Grant, Fall 2015, High Point University, $250
Cultural Diversity Grant, 2013-14, High Point University
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship for archival research and participation in the Folger Shakespeare Library Conference, “Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective,” September 27-30, 2012 $2,000
November 2011 NCSU CHASS Pilot/Proof of Study Grant for "Digital Dryden," $4,000
North Carolina State University DELTA IDEA 2010 Grant, for Google Mapping, $8,000
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship for archival research and participation in the Folger Shakespeare Library Conference, “Contact and Exchange: China and the West,” September 2009, $2,000
Folger Grant awarded for study and participation in the Faculty Weekend Seminar, “The Mental World of Restoration England,” April 2007, $1500
2005 Winner of the Best Graduate Student Conference Presentation on Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, $300
Academic Honors
Phi Beta Kappa, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2002; Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship, 2007; Lane Doctoral Fellow, UNCG Department of English, 2004-2005; Leath Scholar, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1998-2002; HPU Course Research Award, Fall 2014; HPU Sabbatical with funding, Fall 2019; HPU Growth Mindset Grant ($6500), Fall 2020-Spring 2022; HPU Presidential Faculty-Student Engagement Grant ($500), Fall 2021 funding for “History of Beauty” digital archive project with the creative arts fellows; 2022-2023 HPU Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Research Award Winner; 2023-2024 HPU Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Ruth Ridenhour College Research Nominee, 2024 HPU Ruth Ridenhour Award for Scholarly and Professional Achievement
Memberships
Registered Reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library; International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Southeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts; Modern Language Association; Irish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Students Mentored at HPU:
Rachel Vesper: Research Paper, “The Presence/Absence of Father Figures and its Effect on Fairy Tale Heroines,” Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works, the High Point University undergraduate research journal
Thomas Owens: Research Presentation, “William Blake’s Color Wheel and Desmos,” HPU High-PURCS Oral Presentation, Qubein Conference Center, April 2024.
Emma Jerrier: Research Presentation, “Little Red Riding Hood and Female Sexuality,” HPU High-PURCS Oral Presentation, Qubein Conference Center, April 2024.
Alexis Ross: HPU High-PURCS Oral Presentation, “Ovid and Narcissism,” Qubein Conference Center, April 2024.
Josiah Williams: Research Presentation: “All the Daughters and Brothers of her Father’s House: Viola’s Melancholic Tensions from Living with Conditional Identities,” HPU High-PURCS Oral Presentation, Qubein Conference Center, April 2022.
Research Presentation: “Melancholy and Gender in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night,” written for Honors 3611, The Art of Melancholy, Fall 2021, presented at the State of North Carolina Research Undergraduate Conference, Nov. 13, 2021.
Marin Valentine: Research Paper about Eliza Haywood’s novel, Fantomina, written for ENG 4520, “Eighteenth-Century British Literature,” Fall 2018, published in University of Texas at San Antonio Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work vol 6, 2019: http://research.utsa.edu/UG_Journal/index.html
Hannah Ryans: Research Assistant for contracted book, Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics, Spring 2019.
Jennifer West: Winner, HPU Arbor Day Poetry Contest, Spring 2018, for nature poem. HPU HighPURCS presentation, “Medieval Dreaming in the Lais of Marie de France,” April 10, 2018.
Robert Collier: HPU HighPURCS presentation, “The Existential Relevancy of John Milton’s
Paradise Lost: Logical Constructions of Freedom, Reason, and Ontology,” April 10, 2018
Nicole Tarangelo: “Andrew Marvell: Speaking Truth To Power,” presented at the November 2017 State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium at Campbell University and featured student presentation at the annual 2017 November HPU Department of English Phoenix Literary Festival.
Emily Burke: 2017 HighPURCS presentation, “From Verse into Being: Turning
Adapted Poetry into Images,” April 20, 2017.
Helen Barker: 2017 HighPURCS presentation, “Margaret Cavendish’s Work and Her
Impact on Interdisciplinary Studies and Feminism,” April 20, 2017; paper presented at the November 2017 State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium at Campbell University
Mollie McKinley: Presented Research on “Katharine Philips and the Limits of the Self” at the October 2015 English Graduate Student Symposium at the University of South Florida, October 23, 2015 and at the 2016 High-PURCS conference on April 13, 2016. Winner of the 2014 George Barthalmus Sophomore Research Grant winner for her research project on Mary Wroth’s 1621 sonnet collection, Pampilia to Amphilanthus; grant presented at the State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, November 22, 2014. She presented her research on Mary Wroth at the 2015 State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium held at High Point University, November 14, 2015. This research was published in the fourth edition of the Spring 2016 edition of Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works as “Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and the Limits of the Self.” Mollie has been selected for the 2016 SuRI undergraduate research institute to continue her research on women writers.
Catherine Bakewell: Participant in the 2015 Summer Research Institute (SuRI) at HPU. Her research focused on music and literature during the Restoration, with specific attention to Nahum Tate’s libretto for the first English opera, Dido and Aeneas, and French literary influence in the opera by Phillipe Quinault, Armide. She presented her work at the URCW symposium for Family Weekend, September 2015, at HPU and at the 2015 State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium held at High Point University, November 14, 2015. This research was published in the fourth edition of the Spring 2016 edition of Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works as “Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas: A Work of Operatic Compromise.”
Katelin Brownfield: Paper about religion and Anne Bradstreet from ENG 2200, “Early Women Writers” course was published in the fourth edition of the Spring 2016 Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works as “A Puritan’s Petition for Peace.”
Megan Painter: Paper from ENG 4510 on Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley, “The Male and Female Gothic,” presented at the 2016 High-PURCS undergraduate research conference, April 13, 2016.
Rebecca Irons: Paper from ENG 4305 on John Donne’s poetry, “Religion and Sexuality in Donne’s Poetry,” presented at the 2015 HPU High-PURCS undergraduate research conference, April 15, 2015.
Amy King: Paper from ENG 2720 on John Milton’s Il Penseroso, “The Melancholy Muse” presented at the 2015 HPU High-PURCS undergraduate research conference, April 15, 2015. The essay was also published in the Spring 2015 edition of Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works, the High Point University undergraduate research journal.
Sarah Patterson: Participant in the first 2014 Summer Research Institute at HPU. Independent Study of the Gothic Novel in British Literature, July 2014; paper, "The Murderous Libertines of Aphra Behn," from ENG 4520 accepted on the undergraduate panel for the 40th Annual Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 10-12, 2014. Her research on the gothic tradition in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber was presented at the State of North Carolina Research and Creative Works Symposium, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, November 22, 2014.
Taylor McAuliffe: Paper from ENG 2200, "The Obsession with Youth in Adaptations of 'Snow White,' " published in the Spring 2014 edition of Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works, the High Point University undergraduate research journal
Alexandra Love: Paper from ENG 2200, "Gender Roles and Stereotypes in Beauty and the Beast," presented Spring 2014 High-PURCS student research oral session at High Point University, April 24, 2014
Michele Tarangelo: Paper from English 4520, "The Legal World of Moll Flanders: Crime and Deviance in the Eighteenth Century," selected for research poster presentation at the Spring 2014 HPU High-PURCS poster session, April 24, 2014
Shannon Curley: Paper "Gender Roles in Marie de France's Lanval" conference acceptances at BigSURS, April 2013, a medieval literature undergraduate conference in March 2013, and publication in the HPU journal Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works, Spring 2013 edition; paper from English 3299 accepted for publication in the Apollon Undergraduate Journal, Summer 2013. Directed paper, "Macbeth and the Marxist Aviary Structure," published in Anemoi Literary Journal 1.1, June 2013. 38-42.
Students Mentored at NCSU:
Shannon Gillespie: mentored project on Anne Finch (2011-2012) and medicine led to student receiving a research grant for work at the Wellcome Library (a medical library), spring 2012
Academic and Community Service
Ruth Ridenhour Lecture, " "The Fine Taste of Writing: Literature and Commercial Exchange in Eighteenth-Century England" presented October 18 at HPU in Philips 120
Reviewer for HPU undergraduate research journal, Innovations: Journal of Scholarly and Creative Works, the High Point University undergraduate research journal, spring 2025
Chair, HPU English Assessment Committee, 2024-2025
Think Big Selection Committee, Spring 2025
Ruth Ridenhour Selection Committee, Spring 2025
HBS Awards Committee, 2023-2025
Judge, High PURCS oral and poster presentations, spring 2025
Chair, HPU English Department search committee for the Early American Literature Hire (Dr. Joshua Barlett), 2022-2023
HPU Admissions Committee, Fall 2023-present
HPU Open House, September 2023
Search Committee Chair, Early American literature hire, Spring 2023
HPU Honors Committee, Fall 2022-present
Academic Advisor for English majors
HPU Honors Committee, 2022-23
HPU Study Abroad Advisory Committee, 2013-2022
HPU Department of English Gleaton Scholarship Selection Committee, 2020-2022
HPU Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Committee, 2020-2022, 2025-25
HPU Women’s Leadership Exploratory Committee, Spring 2022-present
Chair of the Assessment Committee, HPU Department of English, Fall 2018-2019
HPU Department of English Assessment Committee, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
HPU Department of English Major Revision Committee, 2017-2019
HPU Cultural Programming Committee, 2015-2018
French Search Committee, 2016-17
Director of Global Education Search Committee, Fall 2017
Advisor, Alpha Lambda Delta freshman honor society, Fall 2016-Spring 2017
HPU Faculty Mentor for Dr. Sally McMillin, Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences 2016-17
Peer Reviewer for Journal of Gender Studies, 2015-present
Summer Research Institute (SuRI) Undergraduate Research Mentor, Summer 2014, 2015, 2016
Developed HPU English Club Website, Calendar, and Materials, Summer 2015
Developed HPU Sigma Tau Delta Website and Materials, Summer 2015
Common Experience Film Showing and Dinner Discussion with ENG 1103 students, “He Named Me Malala,” October 11, 2015
HPU English Club Service Project, Book Drive for HPU Community Writing Center, AY 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 , 2016-17
Coordinated HPU English Club Volunteering in Winston Salem at the Bookmarks Festival, September 12, 2015
Admissions Open House English Department Representation, each October 2015-present
Open House for Undeclared Majors, September 2016
Admissions Orientation to the English Major, March 24, 2017
HPU CITL Talk, “Using Virtual Reality and Google in the Classroom,” April 12, 2017
Proposed and successfully changed the catalog wording of ENG 3310, Early English Writers to expand opportunities for faculty teaching in early British fields to offer this course, Spring 2015
Actor, Prince Prospero in the October 25, 2014 Production, The Poe Mystery at the Storytelling and Arts Center, Laurinburg, NC with Theater Faculty at UNC-Pembroke
Colfax Elementary School Day of Service, October 4, 2014
MLK Day of Service, HPU, Unloading Cans for Golf Tournament, January 2019
MLK Day of Service, HPU, Painting Community Writing Center, January 2014
Habitat for Humanity, June 2013
HPU Study Abroad Subcommittees: Handbook (2013); Mission Statement (2017)
HPU English 4998 Design Committee, Fall 2013
HPU Sigma Tau Delta Advisor, Spring 2014-Spring 2017
HPU English Club Advisor, Fall 2013-Spring 2017
Wrote and Organized the HPU Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony, Spring 2014-2017
Advised HPU English Club to rewrite constitution and re-charter with HPU SGA, 2014
Organized HPU English Club Monthly Open Mic Nights and Socials, 2013-2017
Organized HPU Monthly English Club Meetings, Fall 2013-2017
Organized HPU English Club Film Presentation of Etgar Keret’s Jellyfish, November 7, 2014 to coincide with the Phoenix Reading Series Festival
HPU English Club MLK Outdoor Poetry Slam, January 19, 2015 in Downtown Greensboro
Designed and Led a HPU English Department Faculty workshop, “How to Design Course Websites with Google,” Philips Computer Lab, April 2013
HPU Faculty Film Series Host for Dr. Strangelove, November 2012
HPU Literature Major Committee, 2012-13 (two new courses created)
HPU Presidential Scholars Weekend, February 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Digital Learning Committee and Web Designer for HPU Pedagogy Collaborative/Think Big Initiative, 2012-13
Family Weekend Academic Open House Representative, January 31, 2014
English Department Open House Representative, October 8, 2012; October 13, 2014; October 12, 2015, October 2016, October 2017, October 2018
Admissions Open House English Department Representation, July 24, 2014
Undergraduate Academic Advising, 2013-present
Reviewer for submitted student work to the HPU Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Journal, Innovation, 2013-present
Recruitment and Retention Committee, Fall 2013-present
English Department Recruitment Materials Design, Fall 2013-present
HPU Admission Visit to represent English Department, Fall 2013-present