- B.A. with Honors in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- University Department English
- Location 213 Norcross
- Phone Number +1 (336) 841-9560
- Email [email protected]
Research Interests: Early British Literature and Culture (1600-1900); Philosophy and Literature; Women Writers; Gender Studies
Bio: Laura Alexander is Associate Professor of English at High Point University, where she teaches courses on early British literature and culture, fairy tales, 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 more than thirty articles appearing in books and journals, including SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Papers on Language and Literature, College English, and English Studies, among others. She is the author of three books: Fatal Attractions: Abjection in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics (forthcoming 2019); Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul (2013); and Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730 (2011). Her next book will consider theories of melancholy in literature written during the late Stuart period.