Dr. Laura Alexander is Associate Professor of English at High Point University, where she teaches courses on Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture, the art of melancholy, fairy tales, world literature, and women writers. She has twice held a national fellowship from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for research at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She has written seven academic books, a poetry chapbook, and more more than forty articles or book chapters appearing in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1600-1900, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Papers on Language and Literature, CEA Critic, Renascence, and English Studies, among others. Her profile on Google Scholar may be found here. She won the 2024 Ruth Ridenhour Award for scholarly and professional achievement. In her free time, she writes poems and paints with her children. 

Royalties for recent books are donated to Catherine's House, a women's shelter located in North Carolina.

Book Shelf:

Poetry:

The Four Wonders (2025, poetry chapbook, Bottlecup Press). 

Academic:

Fairy Tales and Social Critique in Adaptations by Women Writers (2025)

Transformations of Trauma in Women's Writing, (2023, paperback published 2024)

Women Writing Trauma in Literature (2022, paperback published 2023)

The Beauty of Melancholy and British Women Writers, 1670-1720 (2020, paperback published 2022)

Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics (2019, paperback published 2024)

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul (2013)

Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730 (2011)